Anthony Bryk, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, proposes using improvement science to accelerate learning and address problems of practice because “we need smarter systems, organizations capable of learning and improving, that see learning and change as what it means to be vital, to be alive” (Bryk, Gomez, Grunow, & Le Mahieu, 2014). Bryk et al. (2014) set out “six principles of improvement.” The authors describe improvement science as explicitly designed to accelerate learning-by-doing, utilizing a user-centered and problem-centered approach to improving
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