Reflections on Learning to Improve: Foundational Ideas, Observations from Practice, and Building a Field
Learning Health System Collaboratory talk with Anthony S. Bryk, President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Moderated by Dr. Donald J. Peurach, Professor, School of Education, with a discussion featuring Dr. Elizabeth Dean Moje, Dean, School of Education and Dr. Caren M. Stalburg, Collaborative Lead for Education and Associate Professor of Learning Health Sciences.
About the Talk
While the LHS Collaboratory is typically focused on learning health, learning systems actually have very broad applicability. Moreover, there has been a strong interest in the Collaboratory from the education community which is also focused on learning systems. A thought leader in this area, Anthony S. Bryk, President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, will be speaking about a set of critical observations acquired in the course of his own efforts to improve how large complex educational systems work.
Dr. Bryk’s talk will describe a set of normative challenges that confront us, including ways to shift from pursuing the hot new idea as the silver bullet to continuously improving how core processes and systems in educational institutions work. It is a distinct form of inquiry that values basic research knowledge and rigorous evidence about new programs and interventions, but that also sees efforts aiming to solve problems of practice reliably and at scale as generating its own form of generalizable knowledge. It transforms the core improvement question from “What Works” into “What Works for Whom and under What Set of Context Conditions.”
Attendees of this session will be encouraged to interrogate how accepted ways of working continue to reproduce inequitable outcomes and to recognize that meaningful progress can be achieved on longstanding disparities in outcomes by working in these new ways.
About the LHS Collaboratory
The University of Michigan’s Department of Learning Health Sciences convenes the LHS Collaboratory: a hub for advancing interdisciplinary research and development of learning health systems at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Office of Research, the Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation (IHPI), and the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR).
Through collaboration, we are strengthening U-M’s opportunities for federal funding along with attracting foundations and donors for additional opportunities.
The LHS Collaboratory’s approach to improving individual and population health will make U-M a leader in the national and international movements to achieve learning health systems at organizational, regional, and national scales.
Featured Panelists
