Alicia Grunow
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Alicia Grunow
Co-Founder,
Improvement Collective
Alicia Grunow is a co-founder of the Improvement Collective. She is also a senior fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Grunow is an expert in continuous improvement in education, helping organizations solve critical problems in education and the broader social sector using evidence-based methods. She was previously a senior managing partner at the Carnegie Foundation, where she co-authored Learning to Improve: How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better. She began her career as a bilingual teacher in Denver Public Schools and later taught in New York City Public Schoolsy. Grunow earned her MA in economics and a PhD in education from Stanford University.
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Publications by Alicia Grunow
Building System Capacity to Learn
Continuous improvement in education involves engaging stakeholders in problem-solving to discover, implement, and spread evidence-based changes that work locally to improve student success. California sees it as central to enduring education…
CA is shifting the responsibility for school improvement to local school districts with County Offices of Education playing a supportive role. The focus is on local leaders driving educational improvement and ensuring quality. Strategic data use is…
This report explores the concept of "continuous improvement" in California's K-12 education system, defining it as a shared, evidence-based process that requires a change in culture and a substantial investment of time and resources. Interviews with…