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SUMMARY:The Grit and the Grind: Book Talk Featuring Dr. Joshua L. Glazer
DESCRIPTION:The Grit and the Grind: Building High-Performing Education Sy
 stems in an Era of Polarization Book Talk featuring Dr. Joshua L. Glazer
 \, Author and GW Professor of Education Policy While school improvement 
 depends in part on choosing strong curricula\, recruiting talented leade
 rs\, and adopting effective organizational models\, it also requires org
 anizations to learn from experience\, build professional capacity\, and 
 gradually develop coherent systems for teaching and learning. This work 
 unfolds within political\, historical\, and social contexts that can eit
 her provide or undermine the trust\, stability\, and time that organizat
 ional learning and sustained improvement require. The Grit and the Grind
  argues that politics\, history\, and system improvement are therefore i
 nseparable. Political conditions shape whether reforms acquire legitimac
 y\, while legitimacy\, in turn\, influences whether organizations have t
 he opportunity to acknowledge mistakes\, revise strategies\, build profe
 ssional knowledge\, and develop increasingly effective instructional sys
 tems. Drawing on nearly a decade of research in Memphis\, the authors de
 velop this argument through a comparison of two ambitious efforts to tra
 nsform some of Tennessee's lowest-performing schools: the state-run Achi
 evement School District (ASD) and Shelby County Schools' Innovation Zone
  (iZone). The Grit and the Grind thus offers a reciprocal view of reform
  in which politics shapes the conditions for system improvement\, while 
 the work and outcomes of system improvement\, in turn\, reshape the poli
 tical environment in which reform transpires. About Dr. Joshua L. Glazer
 : Dr. Joshua L. Glazer’s research and teaching examine multiple approach
 es to improving under-performing schools in high-poverty\, urban environ
 ments. He is currently directing two multi-year studies into school turn
 around. The first examines the Tennessee Achievement School District\, i
 n which the state removes underperforming schools from local control and
  then authorizes charter schools to develop and implement designs for im
 provement. The second study\, also in Tennessee\, investigates the effor
 ts of Shelby County Schools\, which includes Memphis\, to devise and dir
 ect its own improvement initiative by using the resources and capacity o
 f the district to improve over twenty schools that rank near the bottom 
 of the state in academic performance. In addition\, Dr. Glazer is the pr
 incipal investigator for program of research looking at research-practic
 e partnerships in Baltimore and New York City. Learn more→\n\nTickets: h
 ttps://calendar.gwu.edu/\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/52fcc2eb-a
 68b-4820-8ab1-ea0a01277e49
LOCATION:George Washington University\, Washington\, DC
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/52fcc2eb-a68b-4820-8ab1-ea0a01277e4
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