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https://sites.google.com/view/sdpconvening2017/open-book-louis-gomezThe Open Book session is a chance to engage with the ideas of a notable author who hopes to improve the education sector. As a field, education has largely failed to learn from experience. Time after time, promising education reforms fall short of their goals and are abandoned as other promising ideas take their place. In Learning to Improve, the authors argue for a new approach. Rather than “implementing fast and learning slow,” they believe educators should adopt a more rigorous approach to improvement that allows the field to “learn fast to implement well.” Using ideas borrowed from improvement science, Louis Gomez, Professor of Education and Information Sciences at UCLA, will share how a process of disciplined inquiry can be combined with the use of networks to identify, adapt, and successfully scale up promising interventions in education.