2025 

The Peabody Journal of Education: Special Issue  

Improvement networks: Insights as we move from theory to action  

Publication Date: February 2025  

Editors:   

Jennifer Lin Russell, Vanderbilt University  

Anthony Bryk, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching   

Don Peurach, University of Michigan  

2024 

Duff, M., Sherer, J. Z., Li, A. Equity in networked improvement: For whom and under what conditions? The Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education. San Diego, CA. 

Duff, M., Russell, J. L., & Sherer, J. Z. Putting networks in context: How NSI manage complex environments The Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education. San Diego, CA. 

Duff, M., Sherer, J. Z., Russell, J. L., Premo, A., E., Li, A. Y., & Perlman, H. Equity in networked improvement: For whom and under what conditions? American Educational Research Association Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. 

2023 

Russell, J. L., & Sherer, J. Z. Organizing for improvement. American Educational Research Association Meeting. Chicago, IL. 

Peurach, D. J., Russell, J. L., Sherer, J. Z., Jones, E., Duff, M., Matthis, C. S., McMahon, K. Developing, managing, and sustaining school improvement networks: Inside the black box of hub leadership. American Educational Research Association Meeting. Chicago, IL. 

Duff, M., Perlman, H., Russell, J, L., Sherer, J. Z., Matthis, C. S., Bryk, A. S. Putting networks in context: How school improvement networks manage complex environments. American Educational Research Association Meeting. Chicago, IL. 

Russell, J. L., Peurach, D. J., Bryk, A., Sherer, J. Z., Duff, M., & Premo, A. A descriptive examination of the manifestation of the improvement network concept in the NSI Initiative. American Educational Research Association Meeting. Chicago, IL. 

2022 

Peurach, D., Russell, J. L., Sherer, J. Z., McMahon, K., & Parkerson, E., The work and complications of hub leadership in educational improvement networks, in Creating Systemic Change for Improvement and Transformation: Affordances and Limitations of Five Efforts to Improve Instruction at Scale. American Educational Research Association Meeting. San Diego, CA. 

2021 

Russell, J. L., Sherer, J. Z., Petrosky, A., Newman, C., Smith, T., Walters, K., Ashoka, E. H. Improving the core: Features, challenges, and opportunities of instructionally-focused improvement networks. The Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education. Virtual, April 2021. 

 2020 

Russell, J. L., Sherer, J. Z., Ashoka, E. H., & Apodaca, R. Improving the core: Features and challenges of instructionally-focused networked improvement communities. The Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education. Virual, April 2020.