... to successfully lead continuous improvement efforts. Research-practice partnerships ( RPPs ) between universities and school districts can help provide such support. In this article, we illustrate how a high school principal participating in an RPP used improvement science to build a positive culture in her...

...Samantha Viano; Maxwell M. Yurkofsky Purpose Improvement science (IS) has become a popular approach to organizing school–university partnerships because of IS’s potential to increase schools' capacity for sustainable improvement. However, little research has directly examined whether and how...

... on qualitative research methods, improvement science and Deming's notion of a system of profound knowledge to identify how members of the school leadership team understood and approached their school improvement work differently as a result of engaging in continuous improvement processes in a research–practice...