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Barrenechea, Ignacio; Beech, Jason; Rivas, Axel – Journal of Educational Change, 2023
Understanding what contributes to improving a system will help us tackle the problems in education systems that usually fail disproportionately in providing quality education for all, especially for the most disadvantage sectors of the population. This paper presents the results of a qualitative systematic literature review aimed at providing a…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Improvement, Comparative Education, School Effectiveness
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Chad R. Lochmiller; Jennifer R. Karnopp – Journal of Educational Change, 2024
Scholars have argued that problem formulation is an important part of successfully initiating a Networked Improvement Community (NIC/s). Yet, few scholars have studied the problem formulation process at the beginning of a NIC. This study draws upon problem formulation literature to examine how district initiators in one NIC identify and make sense…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Learning Activities, Networks
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Selvik, Jon T.; Abrahamsen, Eirik B.; Moen, Vegard – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Systems thinking is challenging but clearly important in higher education to understand relationships between different elements influencing the quality and student learning and achievement. A similar challenge is found in healthcare, where patient safety activities are more and more seen and dealt with in a broader system perspective. A…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Systems Approach, Higher Education, Patients
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Hind Benlhabib; Abdelaziz Berrado – Discover Education, 2025
The conventional perception of Information Systems (IS) in educational systems, focused on improvement, often confines its role to the technical management of dashboards and performance indicators. Its transformative nature has, however, a profound impact at different levels: individual, institutional and even systemic. Thus, education systems'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Performance Based Assessment, Personnel Management, Educational Practices
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Whalen, Samuel P. – Center for Urban Education Leadership, 2020
This case study explores the strategic plan of Janice Jackson, CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, along with the central office leadership team she assembled over a five-year period. In July 2015 Dr. Jackson was tapped by then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel to become Chief Education Officer (CEdO) in partnership with CEO Forrest Claypool, a veteran public…
Descriptors: Central Office Administrators, Educational Practices, Educational Administration, Leadership
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Whalen, Samuel P. – Center for Urban Education Leadership, 2020
This is the Executive Summary for the report, "Transforming Central Office Practices for Equity, Coherence, and Continuous Improvement: Chicago Public Schools under the Leadership of Dr. Janice K. Jackson." This case study explores the strategic plan of Janice Jackson, CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, along with the central office…
Descriptors: Central Office Administrators, Educational Practices, Educational Administration, Leadership
Whalen, Samuel P. – Online Submission, 2020
This study investigates the leadership practices associated with, impacts of, and challenges encountered from a "big city" Chief Executive Officer's continuous improvement approach to system-level leadership. Undertaken from Summer 2019 to early Fall 2020, this study used organizational learning and continuous improvement as tools to…
Descriptors: Central Office Administrators, Educational Practices, Educational Administration, Leadership
Tournier, Barbara; Chimier, Chloé; Childress, David; Jones, Charlotte – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2023
To improve teaching and learning outcomes, teachers and head teachers need whole-system support to build professionalism and enhance their practice. Roles at the middle tier of education systems, or those professionals working between the school and central level, offer unique capacities to facilitate collaboration, broker knowledge, scale…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Outcomes of Education, Educational Quality
Zacamy, Jenna; Roschelle, Jeremy – Digital Promise, 2022
Digital learning platforms (DLPs) are beginning to become open to research. Specifically, in our work in SEERNet, developers are extending five platforms, each used in either K-12 or higher education by more than 100,000 users, to enable third-party researchers to explore, develop, and test improvements. SEERNet seeks to enable equity-relevant…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Sengeh, David; Winthrop, Rebecca – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2022
Today, the topic of education system transformation is front of mind for many leaders. Ministers of education around the world are seeking to build back better as they emerge from COVID-19-school closures to a new normal of living with a pandemic. In response, the authors have developed this shared vision of education system transformation. This…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Districts, State Departments of Education, Educational Improvement
Tournier, Barbara; Chimier, Chloé; Childress, David; Jones, Charlotte – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2023
To improve teaching and learning outcomes, teachers and head teachers need whole-system support to build professionalism and enhance their practice. Roles at the middle tier of education systems, or those professionals working between the school and central level, offer unique capacities to facilitate collaboration, broker knowledge, scale…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Teaching Methods, Middle Management, Educational Quality
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Henriksen, Øyvind H.; Aas, Marit – Educational Action Research, 2021
There is a growing body of action research on school improvement and development. Many of these studies have found the use of critical friendship valuable in relation to teachers' or principals' practice. Yet, little attention has been paid to critical friendship at the school district level. This study explores how a superintendent and three…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Reflection, Trust (Psychology), Systems Approach
Baron, Kathryn; Roberts, Christine; Shin, Sujie; Yang, Yee – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2019
Continuous improvement is a holistic and research-based approach to education grounded in the belief that every system is designed to achieve the results it gets; therefore, change must be systemwide, not piecemeal. California is a national leader in the continuous improvement movement that is spreading throughout local school districts as well as…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Change Strategies, Systems Approach, Cooperative Learning
Kezar, Adrianna – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2019
This report presents an innovative approach for higher education institutions to better support students from diverse backgrounds. It explores how colleges and universities can fulfill a student success agenda through the creation of a diverse infrastructure that enables the overall institution to effectively mobilize to serve diverse student…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Diversity, Student Needs, Success
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Ainscow, Mel; Dyson, Alan; Goldrick, Sue; West, Mel – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2016
Drawing on experiences in England over many years, this paper explores the authors' efforts to use collaborative inquiry in order to foster greater equity within schools. All of this is set within national policy contexts that emphasise increased school autonomy, competition, and accountability as central improvement strategies. It is argued that…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Context Effect, Educational Policy, Educational Cooperation
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