Publications
2025
The Peabody Journal of Education: Special Issue
Educational Improvement Networks: Exploring the Development of Scientific-Professional Learning Communities
Guest Editors: Jennifer Lin Russell, Donald J. Peurach and Anthony S. Bryk
Introduction
Introduction to Themed Issue: Educational Improvement Networks: Exploring the Development of Scientific-Professional Learning Communities
Jennifer Lin Russell, Donald J. Peurach, and Anthony S. Bryk
Articles
Catalyzing Scientific-Professional Learning Communities: A Framework for Conceptualizing the Health and Development of Educational Improvement Networks
Jennifer Lin Russell, Anthony S. Bryk, Donald J. Peurach, Jennifer Zoltners Sherer, Megan Duff, David Sherer, and Chris Matthis
Examining the Validity of Practical Measures of Improvement Network Health and Development
Anthony S. Bryk, Angel Yee-Lam Li, Stuart Luppescu, and Mai Anh Bui
The Design of an Information System to Support Network Development
David Sherer, Anthony S. Bryk, Angel Li, Jennifer Zoltners Sherer, Jennifer Lin Russell, and Mai Anh Bui
Bringing Scientific-Professional Learning Communities into Practice: Exploring Variation in Educational Improvement Network Health and Development
Jennifer Lin Russell, Anthony S. Bryk, and Jennifer Zoltners Sherer
Measuring Educators’ Perceived Benefits of Participation in Educational Improvement Networks
Hanan Perlman, Anthony S. Bryk, and Jennifer Lin Russell
Hub Leaders’ Perspectives on Equity in Networked Improvement
Megan Duff, Jennifer Zoltners Sherer, Anna Premo, and Hanan Perlman
The Practice and Contexts of Hub and District Leadership: New Directions in Research on Educational Improvement Networks
Donald J. Peurach, Elizabeth S. Jones, Megan Duff, Jennifer Zoltners Sherer, and Chris Matthis
2020
2025
Improvement Networks in Education: Practical Work Series
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.