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A Model Critique is a protocol for quickly studying a high-quality piece of work and identifying the elements of quality that make it “work”. In Continuous Improvement, you should use it when a Networked Improvement Community has identified an effective practice that they want to spread.

Insect Diagrams offer opportunities for students, educators, and leaders to learn from one another.

A 40-minute protocol for looking at student work and preparing for the next day’s math lesson.

Improvement isn’t just a method. It’s culture.

Deeper learning and continuous improvement are answers to different halves of the same question. The future of schooling, and the future of our communities, depends on our willingness to reintegrate things we have allowed to drift apart

How a New York City network used weekly 1:1 attendance check-ins to cut chronic absenteeism — and why pizza parties miss the students who need help most.

Many schools and districts have responded to this challenge by ramping up attendance incentives such as prizes, parties, or special privileges intended to draw students to school. These approaches often withhold a positive experience until an absent student behaves differently, reflecting a common belief that the right reward will motivate students to attend more consistently. Unfortunately, research points to a mismatch between this solution and the nature of the problem.

Juli Coleman, Chief of Improvement for School Networks at the CORE Districts in California talks to Dr. Brandi Nicole Hinnant-Crawford, an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, Clemson University, Dr. Louis Gomez, a Distinguished Professor of Education and Information Studies at UCLA, about doing improvement with the goal of advancing equity in education during the current moment.

In this live recording from the 2026 National Summit for Improvement in Education, Partners in School Innovation CEO Derek Mitchell interviews Tenette Smith and Elise Brown about their roles in Mississippi's extraordinary improvement in reading, and how they are bringing the lessons from that into their new work in Maryland.

In this live crossover event for the National Summit on Improvement in Education and the Deeper Learning Conference, Alec Patton interviews Ben Daley, Jim May, and Ash Vasudeva about what deeper learning and continuous improvement have to offer each other.