2023 
May
Lessons in Continuous Improvement: Learning from the 2022 MDI Showcase
In October 2022, MAEC was proud to participate in the 2022 MDI (Model Design and Innovation) Showcase with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This Showcase offered an opportunity for MDI grantees, including MAEC, to discuss how they have advanced the work of continuous improvement during COVID-19. We were proud to share our work with […]
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June
The CI4E Hub joins continuous improvement leaders in NYC this week
The CI4E Hub Team is excited to participate in the Networks for School Improvement (NSI) Community of Practice June Convening in NYC from Tuesday, June 13, through Thursday, June 15, 2023! This will be a great chance to connect with other organizations that seek to advance high school and college success rates among Black and […]
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September
Carnegie Foundation announces 2024 Summit on Improvement in Education
The 2024 Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education will take place on March 24-27, 2024 in San Diego, CA. Participants will learn how to disrupt enduring inequities in education and learn how underlying systems and structures perpetuate these conditions. Sessions will showcase improvement approaches and stories that explicitly meet these challenges in the following […]
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Enhancing Cultural Competence Community Toolkit
Continuous Improvement teams can apply an equity-centered outline and examples to build cultural competence into their efforts using the Enhancing Cultural Competence Community Toolkit from the University of Kansas’s online resource, The Community Toolbox. The outline provides step-by-step instructions to assess strengths, identify priorities, and choose inclusive actions to increase respect, effectiveness, and goal alignment. […]
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Ask an Advocate: Rita Perez
Ask an Advocate is a blog series where education leaders discuss their experience using Continuous Improvement and share real-world insight into how it works and how to apply it in their efforts. This month, we present Rita Perez, Education Equity Specialist for MAEC and Program Manager for the Collaborative Action for Family Engagement center in […]
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2022
November
Creating equitable team structures? Three resources on improvement practices for testing cycles
The CI4E Resource Hub regularly spotlights innovative resources and tools from our resource library to help teams center equity in their continuous improvement efforts. The following worksheets and checklists from the Improvement Collective enable teams to improve their testing capacity, find the right data, and act on the lessons learned from continuous improvement testing cycles. […]
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December
Are we being honest? How the CI4E team addressed the challenges of building an equity-focused resource hub
Three years ago, MAEC took on the exciting challenge of building a resource hub to help schools, school systems, and community organizations center equity in their continuous improvement efforts. Our biggest fear was not hitting the mark, particularly when advocating for equity and social justice to a national audience of educators and community organizations from […]
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