Conditions for Professional Growth
Catalyze
Shared language and best practices.
Realtime, actionable feedback.
Disaggregated data for monitoring impact.
Positive organizational conditions foster professional growth and job satisfaction, as well as student learning and development. Catalyze helps education leaders improve organizational conditions through:
Why Catalyze?
How does Catalyze work?
Education leaders use Catalyze over multiple cycles of inquiry and action to learn how faculty, staff, or other key stakeholders experience the organizational conditions on their teams.
Timely reports provide actionable, disaggregated feedback.
2. Reflect on Feedback
A brief survey measures key organizational conditions.
1. Elevate Stakeholder Voice
Implement selected practices and start a new cycle to assess impact.
4. Improve & Repeat
Consult practice guides to decide what new practices to test out.
3. Select New Practices
Join the Catalyze Community
The Catalyze measures and guides are developed and refined by the Equitable Learning & Development Group (ELDG) at the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research with ongoing input from the Catalyze community.
First developed for use in the BELE Network, Catalyze is now open to all education leaders in the U.S. who endorse its community agreements.
Community Spotlights
Leadership consultant Alex Fralin uses Catalyze to help school and district leaders build thriving, equitable professional cultures.
Andria Shyjka led the development of the Catalyze measures through reviewing existing literature, interviewing experts, and conducting psychometric analyses. She also authored some of the Catalyze guides.
Chicago Public Schools Network Chief Mike Boraz uses Catalyze to establish the organizational conditions his principals need to succeed.
About ELDG
The Equitable Learning & Development Group (ELDG) conducts and translates academic research for an education audience. We leverage social connectivity to contribute to the broad national movement to transform public schools. We work with educational leaders, principals, teachers, and students, to identify how best to transform schools into joyous, intellectually challenging, and equitable learning environments for young people.
About PERTS
The Project for Education Research That Scales (PERTS) is a nonprofit research and development institute that translates insights from psychological science into cutting-edge tools, measures, and recommendations that educators anywhere can use to foster healthy and equitable academic engagement and success.
Catalyze Community Agreements
Measure for Improvement
Use Catalyze data to support improvement: to identify practices and policies that should be adopted, adapted, or abandoned. Don’t use Catalyze data to evaluate individuals.
Support Measure Refinement
Catalyze measures were developed and refined by ELDG through research reviews, cognitive interviews, and psychometric analyses. Catalyze partners understand that this work continues and that they may be invited (though never required) to support it by sharing their perspectives.
Elevate Effective Practices
Catalyze practice guides were assembled by ELDG through reviews of the research literature and feedback from Catalyze partners. Catalyze guides continue to be refined, and partners may be invited (though not required) to contribute to these efforts by sharing their insights, approaches, and practices.
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Community Spotlights
Leadership consultant Alex Fralin uses Catalyze to help school and district leaders build thriving, equitable professional cultures.
Andria Shyjka led the development of the Catalyze measures through interviews, psychometric analysis, and writing for the Catalyze guides.
Chicago Public Schools Network Chief Mike Boraz uses Catalyze to establish the organizational conditions his principals need to succeed.
