Research on educator engagement in continuous improvement

Ariel Tichnor-Wagner, John Wachen, Marisa Cannata, and Lora Cohen-Vogel have published a new paper in the Journal of Educational Change. This article, “Continuous Improvement in the public school context: Understanding how educators respond to plan-do-study-act cycles” reports on what we’ve learned about introducing continuous improvement research in two large school districts.The last 5 years have…

Posted by Marisa Cannata on July 31, 2017 in News

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New paper on effective high schools

Marisa Cannata, Thomas Smith, and Katherine Taylor Haynes have published a new paper in AERA Open. This article, “Integrating Academic Press and Support by Increasing Student Ownership and Responsibility” reports the results of our intensive case study research on higher and lower performing high schools in one of our partner districts. Using a mixed methods…

Posted by Marisa Cannata on June 20, 2017 in News

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Scaling Up Research at AERA 2017

After almost seven years of working with our partner districts, we have a lot of things to share on what we’ve learned about scaling up effective practices. Here is a complete schedule for presentations at AERA 2017. See you in San Antonio! Thursday, April 27, 2017: 2:15 p.m. -3:45 p.m. – Poster Session – Convention…

Posted by Marisa Cannata on April 14, 2017 in News

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Upcoming: Teacher Leadership conference, AEFP, and Carnegie Summit

Researchers and practitioners from the National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools are presenting at several upcoming national conferences. Teacher Leadership Conference The University of Florida is hosting the International Teacher Leadership Conference on March 2-3, 2017 in Miami, FL. This conference is designed to bring together scholars and practitioners to examine issues around teacher…

Posted by Marisa Cannata on February 28, 2017 in News

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Yearbook on Mapping the High School Reform Landscape

We are excited to release the Teachers College Yearbook on Mapping the High School Reform Landscape! Read it here. While there has been a proliferation of high school reform models and interventions over the past few decades aimed at improving the nation’s high schools—including increasing graduation requirements, introducing technology to classrooms, grouping 9th grade students…

Posted by Marisa Cannata on February 2, 2017 in News

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Watch our director talk about what we’ve learned

Watch Dr. Marisa Cannata, Director of the National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools, talk about what the center has learned about implementing high school reforms. Video

Posted by Marisa Cannata on December 13, 2016 in News, featured

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NCSU receives i3 grant to continue developing PASL

For the past six years, the National Center for Scaling Up Effective Schools has led the design, development, and implementation of Personalization for Academic and Social Emotional Learning (PASL) into eight BCPS high schools. PASL is a school-wide approach in which administrators, guidance counselors and teachers intentionally and deliberately attend to students’ academic, social emotional,…

Posted by Marisa Cannata on November 10, 2016 in News, featured

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New publication on personalization in high schools

NCSU researchers Ariel Tichnor-Wagner and Danielle Allen just published a comparative case study of caring practices in two higher performing and two lower performing urban high schools. They found that higher performing schools demonstrated caring communities, where interpersonal relationships and high academic expectations were prevalent throughout the school. Strong leadership support, caring as a core…

Posted by Marisa Cannata on June 1, 2016 in News

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