{"id":7722,"date":"2017-03-03T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/?p=7722"},"modified":"2017-02-22T09:34:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T13:34:06","slug":"improvement-team-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/improvement-team-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Improvement is a Team Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Manuelito Biag recently reflected on educational improvement in the Carnegie Commons Blog, arguing that improvement requires a user-centered strategy. Excerpts of the article appear below:<\/span><\/p>\n

In education, knowing what works, for whom, and under what conditions requires deep understanding of individuals \u2014 their needs, concerns, and motivations \u2014 as well as the contexts they inhabit. The very first of Carnegie\u2019s<\/em><\/span> Six Core Principles of Improvement<\/span><\/a> is to make the work problem-centered and user-focused. In a school setting, users can include students, teachers, administrators, family members, and other youth-serving individuals. A user-centered strategy is premised on the notion that those who face the problem day-to-day are the ones who best understand it and, therefore, hold the keys to its answer; accordingly, a user-centered approach holds promise in creating democratic and desirable solutions that work in context and endure over time.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Tracing its roots in engineering fields such as computer science and ergonomics, user-centered design has several aspects congruent with the science of improvement: <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n