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Chance to hear global leader in education share his views

&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;" alignright size-full wp-image-1335" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;schoolnewsnz&period;fastrackdev&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;03&sol;SND13-wk2-Education&lowbar;lecture-Dr&lowbar;Anthony&lowbar;Bryk&lowbar;300x224&period;jpg" alt&equals;"SND13-wk2-Education lecture-Dr Anthony Bryk 300x224" style&equals;"margin&colon; 5px&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"224" &sol;>Dr Anthony &lpar;Tony&rpar; S&period; Bryk&comma; a global leader in education research and one of America&&num;8217&semi;s most noted educational researchers&comma; will give a public lecture at the University of Auckland&&num;8217&semi;s Faculty of Education next week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p> <&excl;--more--> <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dr Bryk is the ninth president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching&comma; where he has introduced and is leading work to create a new research and development infrastructure to support educational improvement in the United States&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In his lecture&comma; Learning to Improve&comma; Dr Bryk will discuss how education has largely failed to learn from experience&period; Time after time&comma; promising education reforms fall short of their goals and are abandoned as other promising ideas take their place&period;
 He will argue that rather than &&num;8220&semi;implementing fast and learning slow&comma;&&num;8221&semi; educators should adopt a more rigorous approach to improvement that allows the field to &&num;8220&semi;learn fast to implement well&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Using ideas borrowed from improvement science&comma; Dr Bryk will show how a process of disciplined inquiry can be combined with the use of networks to identify&comma; adapt and successfully scale up promising interventions in education&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dr Bryk will also discuss how&comma; organised around six core principles&comma; &&num;8220&semi;networked improvement communities&&num;8221&semi; can bring together researchers and practitioners to accelerate learning in key areas of education&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The lecture title is from his latest book&comma; Learning to Improve&comma; in which Dr Bryk and his colleagues present an informative guide for identifying&comma; adapting and scaling up promising interventions in education&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dr Bryk holds a B&period;S&period; from Boston College and an Ed&period;D&period; from Harvard University&period; He is the author of ten other books and hundreds of education articles&period; He has been president of the Carnegie Foundation since September 2008&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>From 2004 until 2008 he held the Spencer Chair in Organizational Studies in the School of Education and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University&period; He came to Stanford from the University of Chicago&comma; where he was the Marshall Field IV Professor of Urban Education in the sociology department&comma; and where he helped found the Center for Urban School Improvement&comma; which supports reform efforts in the Chicago Public Schools&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He also created the Consortium on Chicago School Research&comma; a federation of research groups that have produced a range of studies to advance and assess urban school reform&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dr Bryk is a member of the National Academy of Education and was appointed by President Obama to the National Board for Education Sciences in 2010&period; In 2011&comma; he was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dr Bryk&&num;8217&semi;s lecture is on Tuesday&comma; March 17&comma; 2015&comma; 4&period;30pm-6pm&comma; J1 Lecture Theatre&comma; Gate2&comma; 74 Epsom Ave&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Register here&colon;&nbsp&semi;<strong><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;bryklecture&period;eventbrite&period;co&period;nz" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">www&period;bryklecture&period;eventbrite&period;co&period;nz<&sol;a>&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;<br &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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