For newer members interested in learning more about improvement science in the field of education, the IS SIG Executive Leadership Team is pleased to provide a summer reading list featuring some foundational improvement science texts.
Anderson, E., Cunningham, K., & Eddy-Spicer, D. (October, 2023). Leading Continuous Improvement in Schools: Enacting Leadership Standards to Advance Educational Quality and Equity. New York: NY, Routledge
Anderson,E.& Hayes, S. (forthcoming 2023) Continuous improvement: A leadership process for school improvement. Information Age Publishing.
Bang, M., Faber, L., Gurneau, J., Marin, A., & Soto, C. (2016). Community-based design research: Learning across generations and strategic transformations of institutional relations toward axiological innovations. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 23(1), 28-41. https://doi.org/10.1080/10749039.2015.1087572
Biag, M., & Sherer, D. (2021). Getting better at getting better: Improvement dispositions in education. Teachers College Record, 123(4), 1–42. https://doi.org/10.1177/016146812112300402
Bryk, A. S. (2010). Organizing schools for improvement. Phi Delta Kappan, 91(7), 23-30.
Bryk, A. S. (2020). Improvement in action: Advancing quality in America's schools. Harvard Education Press.
Bryk, A. S., Gomez, L. M., Grunow, A., & Lemahieu, P. G. (2015). Learning to improve: How America’s schools can get better at getting better. Harvard Education Press.
Carlile, S. and Peterson, D. (2021). Improvement Science: Promoting Equity in Schools. Improvement Science: Promoting Equity in Schools
Coburn, C. E. (2003). Rethinking scale: Moving beyond numbers to deep and lasting change.Educational Researcher, 32(6), 3-12. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X032006003
Cohen-Vogel, L., Harrison, C., & Griffard, M. R. (2019). Organizing for continuousimprovement in education. Oxford Bibliographies. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199756810-0229
Crow, R. Hinnant-Crawford, B. & Spaulding, D. T.. The Educational Leader's Guide to Improvement Science: Data, Design and Cases for Reflection (pp. 91-124). Myers Education Press.
Fishman, B., & Penuel, W. (2018). Design-based implementation research. In Internationalhandbook of the learning sciences (pp. 393-400). Routledge.
Gomez, L., et al. (2023). Improving America's Schools Together: How District-University Partnerships and Continuous Improvement Can Transform Education. Rowman & Littlefield.
Hinnant-Crawford, B. N. (2020). Improvement Science in Education: A Primer. Meyers Education Press.
Irby D. J. (2021). Stuck improving: Racial equity and school leadership. Harvard Education Press.
Langley, G. J., Moen, R. D., Nolan, K. M., Nolan, T. W., Norman, C. L., & Provost, P. L. (2009). The improvement guide: A practical approach to enhancing organizational performance (2nd ed.). Jossey-Bass.
LeMahieu, P. G., Bryk, A. S., Grunow, A., & Gomez, L. M. (2017). Working to improve: Seven approaches to improvement science in education. Quality Assurance in Education, 25(1), 2-4. https://doi.org/doi:10.1108/QAE-12-2016-0086
Park, S., Hironaka, S., Carver, P., & Nordstrum, L. (2013). Continuous improvement in education. http://admin.issuelab.org/permalink/resource/15280
Peurach, D. J., Russell, J. L., Cohen-Vogel, L., & Penuel, W. R. (Eds.). (2022). The Foundational Handbook on Improvement Research in Education. Rowman and Littlefield
Russell, J., Bryk, A., Dolle, J., Gomez, L., Lemahieu, P., & Grunow, A. (2017). A Framework for the Initiation of Networked Improvement Communities. Teachers College Record, 119(6),
Spaulding, D. T.; Crow, R.&. Hinnant-Crawford, B. N. (Eds.), Teaching improvement science in educational leadership (pp. 17-41). Myers Education Press.
Smylie, M. A. (2010). Continuous school improvement. Corwin Press.
Stevenson, I., & Weiner, J. M. (2021). The strategy playbook for educational leaders : Principles and processes. Routledge.
Yurkofsky, M. M., Peterson, A. J., Mehta, J. D., Horwitz-Willis, R., & Frumin, K. M. (2020). Research on continuous improvement: Exploring the complexities of managing educational change. Review of Research in Education, 44(1), 403-433. https://doi.org/10.3102/0091732x20907363
Yurkofsky, M. M., & Peurach, D. J. (2023). The paradox of leading amidst uncertainty: Maintaining balance on an unstable beam. Journal of Educa