Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Liberty Public Schools in Kansas City, Missouri, was recognized with the 2026 Carnegie Award for Impact for its work to meet a bold goal: 100% of Liberty students would engage in a Real World Learning experience and graduate having demonstrated skills aligned to the district’s Graduate Profile. Through intentional effort to build systems that ensure that real world lear...

Hemet Unified School District in Riverside county, California, made a districtwide commitment to continuous improvement that has helped them to see important gains across multiple measures of college and career readiness for students. In 2026, Hemet Unified was recognized with the Carnegie Award for Impact for its results: over three years the district increased Career ...

CORE Districts launched the Breakthrough Success Community (BTSC) to bring together districts from across the state of California to work together to increase the percentage of students who are on-track for high school graduation and postsecondary persistence at the end of 9th grade. As collaborators in the CORE Districts’ BTSC, four districts together reduced the perce...

Imagine a high schooler receiving a score that tells them whether they’ve grown in their creativity. Or taking a test that looks more like a class project, which measures their competency in communicating, in addition to math.

Picture educators looking through reliable feedback on how well they are preparing students to be critical thinkers or engaged cit...

This essay, authored by Alicia Grunow, introduces a draft of a shared agenda for the field of improvement in education. It was introduced and offered as a stimulus for discussion at the Spring 2025 National Summit on Improvement in Education.

The essay builds off the 2011 paper, “Getting Ideas into Action: Building Networked Improvement Communities in Educati...