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This blog is part of a series that identi es and discusses practical issues that arise in initiating networked improvement communities (NICs). While other contributors have written from the perspective of those doing such work, my contribution is something of a twist, in that I write from the perspective of an external observer whose research focuses on largescale, network-based educational improvement as a matter of policy and practice.