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Kris Bertoglio

@loadreductionleadership.com

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Husband, Dad, Educator, New Yorker, Educational Researcher. Lead developer of Load Reduction Leadership. www.loadreductionleadership.com Ideas expressed here are my own.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 04/05/2025

I spent most of the day compiling and cleaning data so I could make graphs like this for any NYC school. #RStats #ggplot #EducationalResearch

A ggplot that shows how cohorts of students change their relative performance on state tests

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 29/04/2025

Proud to share that my iPoster was the third "most popular" of more than a thousand shared during #AERA2025. Thanks to everyone who engaged with this work, Division A for selecting it, and AERA for including a virtual participation option. aera25-aera.ipostersessions.com?s=77-B3-8A-F...

Picture of AERA iPresentation gallery sorted for "most popular." Kris's presentation is listed third.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 21/02/2025

Drafted my first pre-registration for a educational research study, feeling cute. sreereg.icpsr.umich.edu/sreereg/subE... #EduSky #EducationalResearch

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 14/01/2025

In lots of industries managers streamline workflows to improve performance... that's not necessarily the case in ours. #edusky

Distracted boyfriend meme template. Boyfriend = school leaders. Girlfriend = make it easier for employees to do their jobs. Girl in red = give teachers lots more new things to do and worry about.

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 31/12/2024

Finished reading A House Between Earth and the Moon by Rebecca Scherm. Can't remember how it ended up on my TBR, but glad it was. The sort of science fiction that will haunt me in quiet moments for years to come. 5/5

A cover image of A House Between Earth and the Moon by Rebecca Scherm

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 22/11/2024

My next non-digital book is David Rogers's (1968) 110 Livingston Street: Politics and Bureaucracy in the New York City Schools. Reading it for wisdom and insight into the system I inhabit, how it became what it is, and what it might revert into. #educationalresearch

Picture of a 55-year-old book: 110 Livingston Street by David Rogers

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 21/11/2024

Finished re-reading "So Much Reform, So Little Change" this morning. Posting two final quotes that resonate with my own research. #EduSky

An image from page 196:
... A stressful, low-reward environment predisposes people to construct an affirming worldview, one that tells them they are already doing everything that's possible under the circumstances. ...

An Image from page 158, quoting Berends, Bodilly, & Kriby (2002).

...[A]ll high-quality schools possess a unifying design that allows all staff members to perform to the best of their abilities and that integrates research-based practices into a coherent and mutually reinforcing set of effective approaches to teaching and learning for the entire school. ...

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 16/11/2024

"Perhaps the safest generalization one can make about urban schools or school districts is that most of them are trying to do too much too fast, initiating programs on the basis of what's needed rather than on the basis of what they are capable of." (173)

Excerpt from page 173:
"Perhaps the safest generalization one can make about urban schools or school districts is that most of them are trying to do too much too fast, initiating programs on the basis of what's needed rather than on the basis of what they are capable of."

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 12/11/2024

Here is his "School Reformers' Pledge of Good Conduct" I will not overpromise I will not disrespect teachers I will not do anything behind the principal’s back I will not take part in any partisan personal feuds I will not equate disagreement with ‘resistance’ I will not put down other programs

I will not overpromise

I will not disrespect teachers

I will not do anything behind the principal’s back

I will not take part in any partisan personal feuds

I will not equate disagreement with ‘resistance’

I will not put down other programs

I will not expect change overnight

I will take time to study the history of reforms similar to mine

I will not try to scale up prematurely

If I am not in the field myself, I will take seriously what the field workers tell me

I will give school people realistic estimates of how much time and money it takes to implement my program
(p 153)

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 08/11/2024

"If we begin with the assumption that there are many smart, talented, hardworking people in schools ... Our energies would be better devoted to trying to understand the organizational and environmental characteristics leading people to do so much less than they can." (p. 64) Full passage in alt text

Cropped picture of text from a book page:
"... If we begin with the assumption that there are many smart, talented, hardworking people in schools, we are less likely to accept the notion that there is some bright new idea that’s going to fix everything. If that’s all it took, the good people in our schools would have figured it out already. We are not smarter than they. Our energies would be better devoted to trying to understand the organizational and environmental characteristics leading people to do so much less than they can. (p. 64)"

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 05/11/2024

Revisiting Charles M. Payne's "So Much Reform, So Little Change" (2008) feels timely. His insights into the limitations of neoliberal school reform are more relevant than ever. #educationalresearch #edpolisky

Picture of a book cover: Charles M. Payne's "So Much Reform So Little Change"

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Kris Bertoglio @loadreductionleadership.com · 26/10/2024

Seeing my name on a list of speakers this close to Dan Meyer's is a career highlight. Also, I get to share my school improvement research with some New York City school leaders at the CSA Leadership Conference. #EduSky #EducationalResearch #LoadReductionLeadership

Phone screenshot of a list of conference speakers. Dan Meyer is at the top. Two are blurred out. I am listed fourth.

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