This companion workbook, aligned to the three components of Implementation Science, Enabling Context, Effective Practices, and Effective Implementation, is a hands-on resource designed to help educators, instructional leaders, and district teams bring implementation science principles to life in real-world educational settings. The workbook provides structured tools, practical strategies, and real-world examples to bridge theory to practice, ensuring successful, sustainable, and equity-centered improvements in teaching and learning. Leaders will be able to plan, implement, monitor, and assess their chosen intervention. By the end of this workbook, leaders will have a complete strategic plan with all supports to finally reach their intended outcomes.
Real-world case studies illustrate successful applications of improvement science in diverse school settings. These examples provide readers with insights into implementation challenges and successes, offering practical takeaways that can be adapted for their own contexts. To support day-to-day implementation, the book includes a variety of tools and resources such as data collection templates, PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) cycle checklists, and facilitation guides for collaborative meetings. These practical assets make it easier for educators to incorporate improvement science into their routines.
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This companion workbook, aligned to the three components of Implementation Science, Enabling Context, Effective Practices, and Effective Implementation, is a hands-on resource designed to help educators, instructional leaders, and district teams bring implementation science principles to life in real-world educational settings. The workbook provides structured tools, practical strategies, and real-world examples to bridge theory to practice, ensuring successful, sustainable, and equity-centered improvements in teaching and learning. Leaders will be able to plan, implement, monitor, and assess their chosen intervention. By the end of this workbook, leaders will have a complete strategic plan with all supports to finally reach their intended outcomes.
“Drawing upon her rich experiences as a school leader, Dr. Julia Carlson deftly translates the big ideas of implementation science into a clear, thought-provoking guide. Reflection questions and real-world examples woven into each chapter book invite readers into walking the walk of data-informed improvement. This playbook offers an excellent starting point for leaders ready to make meaningful, lasting change in their schools.”
Vincent Cho, Ph.D., Boston CollegeVitalSource offer a more seamless way to access the ebook, and add some great new features including text-to-voice. You own your ebook for life, it is simply hosted on the vendor website, working much like Kindle and Nook. Click here to see more detailed information on this process.
“Hinnant-Crawford has made clear the link between equity, justice, and improvement science. By focusing on the systems-level, improvement science empowers educational leaders to actively change the structures that perpetuate inequities for our children. This book offers a distinct set of tools for practitioners who strive to champion equity and justice as drivers of change.”
Jill Alexa Perry, PhD, Executive Director, Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED), Associate Professor of the Practice, University of Pittsburgh
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Win-Win offers real-world strategies to education leaders of improvement, based on Edward Demings’ System of Profound Knowledge. A leader of improvement does not need to be expert in the four components of profound knowledge, but they do need to understand the basic theory, their interconnectedness, and why they are necessary for these efforts. Win-Win provides this basic understanding to improve the performance of schools systems, students, and teachers.
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“Bendikson and Meyer’s book unravels the mystery of the often-misunderstood concept of school improvement. Drawing on their research and successful experience in supporting schools, Linda and Frauke provide achievable, practical steps that help school leaders drive improvement. Applying their user-friendly School Improvement Cycle, the authors show schools how to become intentionally sharp in their daily work. With practiced application, Bendikson and Meyer’s insights will transform school improvement and become anchored in the heart of a school’s culture. An excellent resource for leaders who strive for continuous improvement in their schools.”
Anne Duncan, Workstream Lead, and Kevin Williams, Deputy Workstream Lead, Capability and Enablement of Our People, Catholic Schools Broken Bay, Sydney, Australia
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“In my efforts to help improvement science land as a useful set of mindsets and skills for educators, the most consistent request I hear is for concrete examples of improvement projects in education. Imagine my delight to discover this book, filled with stories of improvement by teachers and school leaders. If you believe that disciplined inquiry by those closest to students can lead to more equitable outcomes, you will want to read this book.”
Ben Daley, President, High Tech High Graduate School of Education
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“Improvement Science: Promoting Equity in Schools is a book rooted in timeless theory and grounded in compelling practice. It is highly relevant and useful for teachers and school leaders who seek to urgently advance meaningful improvement in education.
The numerous case studies in this volume weave throughout comprehensive K-12 instruction while reminding the reader that there is no greater theory than good practice. Further, the vignettes provide detailed examples of praxis as the reader’s focus is compelled to integrate the essential ethic of equitable education. Educators motivated by improving instruction and its outcomes will find their time is well-spent within these pages.”
Rob Larson, Ed.D., President, RTL Consulting
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A 2022 SPE Outstanding Book Honorable Mention
“Teaching Improvement Science in Educational Leadership is an essential pedagogic resource for anyone involved in the preparation and continued professional education of teacher, school, or system leaders. The authors are themselves leaders in the teaching of Improvement Science and in mentoring the application of the improvement principles to redressing racial and class inequities. They share here valuable lessons from their own teaching and improvement efforts.”
Anthony S. Bryk, Immediate past-president, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Author, Learning to Improve: How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better
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“Addressing the needs of the scholar-practitioner doctorate, Perry, Zambo, and Crowe provide an invaluable resource to guide faculty and students’ implementation of the Dissertation in Practice. Expanding extensively on improvement science fundamentals that support the teaching and scholarship of the EdD, this important book provides clear principles and guidance for improvement science dissertations in practice that support the journey of all scholarly practitioners.”
Elizabeth C. Reilly, Chair & Professor, Loyola Marymount University
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The Educational Leader’s Guide to Improvement Science: Data, Design and Cases for Reflection is a collection illustrating applied organizational problem-solving using methods of improvement science in educational leadership. Early chapters introduce improvement science and then the reader is led through a logical sequence of inquiry, presented with cases of educational dilemma matched with principles of improvement science and provided examples of research methodology applied in context.
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