Creating a CPED Networked Improvement Community to Enhance EdD Practice-Based Inquiry, Community Connections and Partnerships

1. Creating a CPED Networked
Improvement Community to
Enhance EdD Practice-Based
Inquiry, Community
Connections and
Partnerships
Presenters: Debby Zambo and Betsy
Kean

2. Objectives: In this Exchange
CPED members will:
• Consider the tools and processes of
Improvement Science;
• Engage in developing solutions to
incorporating Improvement Science
and Networked Improvement
Communities in EdD programs;
• Establish a Network Improvement
Community to turn these ideas into
actions.

3. The Case for Improvement
Science
 Decades of successful use in multiple
fields leading to improvements in
practice
 In past 14 years:
◦ Health Care: ~12,000 studies using
Improvement Science (IS)
◦ Education: 240 IS studies
 IES is “beginning” to support this work

4. Principles of Improvement á lá
the Carnegie Foundation
Illustrates how Improvement Science through
networks can effect change
** To accelerate
improvements: Tap the
Wisdom of Crowds

5. IS inquiry
 Is based on traditional methods of
research
 Is highly analytical and disciplined
(rigor)
 Links to existing knowledge base in
teaching/learning/social systems
 Provides replication in different
contexts to expand use rapidly
 Requires new intentionality (culture
shifts)

6. Your turn
 Have you done IS?
 What would you like to do first (or
next)?

7. Networked Improvement
Community
An intentionally designed social
organization with a distinctive problem-
solving focus; roles, responsibilities,
and norms for membership; and the
maintenance of narratives that detail
what it is about and why affiliating with it
is important.

8. Essential NIC Characteristics:
• Focused on a well-specified common
aim
• Guided by a deep understanding of the
problem, the system that produces it,
,and a shared working theory to improve
it
• Disciplined by the methods of
improvement science research to
develop, test, and refine interventions
• Organized to accelerate the diffusion of
interventions into the field and effective
integration into varied contexts

9. Learning in NICs:
 A level: Example: knowledge acquired by
front-line workers, e.g., a faculty member
learning to use IS tools (cf.: Action
Research).
 B level: Example: clusters of workers in the
same workplace who together address the
same practice issues (cf.: Curriculum revision
team in an EdD program; Professional
Learning Communities in a school; Lesson
Study).
 C level: Example: learning across
institutions (cf: expand learning throughout
sites within a system).

10. The Benefits of NICs:
• resource social capital
• investigate patterns and identify
improvement targets from network
data
• compare results and learn from one
another
• support translational research –
scholar
practitioners

11. A Call to Innovate:
In 2012,Tony Bryk, President of the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching, posed the following questions
to CPED members:
 What if cadres of EdD candidates
across multiple institutions were working
on a problem, or parts of a problem, in a
Networked Improvement Community?
 What if CPED institutions supported
Networked Improvement Communities
while also developing human and social
capacity for this work to grow?

12. The Problem: Despite this call
and the demonstrated benefits
of IS & NIC’s, we continue to
struggle to bring them into the
Consortium.
Why might this be?

13. Our Modest Proposal
 Organize and initiate a NIC to explore
implementing IS/NICs into EdD
programs
 Initial phase: June 2015 – October
2015

14. Possible Goals for our NIC
 Members use IS tools and strategies
to understand their own EdD system
 Members initiative and evaluate one
change incorporating IS/NICs into
their EdD program
 The NIC begins to develop a theory of
practice improvement for
implementing IS/NICs into EdD
programs

15. CPED’s role in the (initial) NIC
 CPED facilitators produce a summary
of PDSA cycles, change results,
unexpected outcomes, next steps
 Assess of the role of CPED in
facilitating the work of the NIC
members
 Lead discussion of next steps based
on experiences of the NIC

16. How you can help plan/do this
CPED NIC
 Handout on CPED’s facilitating
activities and responsibilities
 Assume that you wanted to
participate:
◦ Which of these seem helpful?
◦ Which would you change and how?
◦ What is missing?
◦ What questions do you have about
CPED’s role?

17. How you can help plan/do this
CPED NIC
 Handout on members’ proposed
activities and responsibilities
 Assume that you wanted to
participate:
◦ Which of these seem reasonable?
◦ Which would you change and how?
◦ What is missing?
◦ What questions do you have about this
plan?

18. Where do we go from here?
 Questions?
 See the planning sheet
 Mark appropriate boxes

19. Thank You