School-Wide Change that Sticks

(from Global Online Academy) Faculty and staff wary of large-scale school changes have a case of "solutionitis," according to a new book, "Learning to Improve: How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better." American schools tend towards rapid implementation of sweeping solutions, which breeds implementation fatigue. The authors argue that six principles of improvement science can help make more lasting, impactful change:

1. Make the work problem-specific and user-centered.
2.  Focus on variation in performance.
3.  See the system that produces the current outcomes.
4.  We cannot improve at scale what we cannot measure.
5. Use disciplined inquiry to drive improvement.
6.  Accelerate learning through networked improvement communities (NIC).

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