Journey to Improvement

by Alicia Grunow, Sandra Park, Brandon Bennett

The challenges we face in education, healthcare and social welfare are multi-faceted, reflecting the complex systems we live in. Out of urgency and often the best of intentions, organizations implement new policies, technologies, and other innovations to tackle these issues, and hope for the best.



However, addressing these challenges requires more than heroic individuals with silver bullet solutions. We need teams with diverse expertise that know how to learn together and use their collective knowledge to redesign our social systems for the improved well-being of our communities.



Journey to Improvement serves as a roadmap for teams ready to follow a different path to better outcomes. Drawing on their decades of on-the-ground experience leading improvement work in different social sectors, the authors walk teams through the various phases of an improvement journey, from launching the team, to trying ideas in practice to spreading those that work. The book highlights the personal, relational and technical aspects of taking an improvement science approach and illustrates these ideas through real world examples from across the social sector and around the world.

278 pages, Paperback

Published April 23, 2024

Reviews

[Matt]

A practical guide for applying improvement science in a school or district. This resource can be used by both internal leaders/coaches and external coaches supporting educators. The authors' companion site for the book has many downloadable resources I have already applied to my own work as a systems coach. I highly recommend this book for fans of Learning to Improve or Street Data. It provides a methodology for using all of the improvement science tools out there.

[erika n andrew]

excellent. practical. chapters by parts of cycle