Dancing on a Pin: Health Planning in Arizona

This publication challenges us to step back and reflect on the past, present and future of health systems. Take a deeper look at planning and how we got here, review the roles of competition and regulation, and learn about the health planning matrix along with the concept of health planning bridges. Discover for yourself if these thoughts and tools help the signal of quality health planning rise more clearly from out of the noise

Tradeoffs in the utility of learned knowledge

Planning systems which make use of domain theories can produce more accurate plans and achieve more goals as the quality of their domain knowledge improves. MTR, a multi-strategy learning system, was designed to learn from system failures and improve domain knowledge used in planning. However, augmented domain knowledge can decrease planning efficiency. We describe how improved knowledge that becomes expensive to use can be approximated to yield calculated tradeoffs in accuracy and efficiency

What do teachers attend to in curriculum materials?

In this paper, we describe an emerging methodology using eye tracking to explore teachers’ curricular attending as they interact with curriculum materials to design a lesson in order to learn what teachers pay attention to and how this attention shifts during planning. We propose affordances of this new method, remark on some of its limitations, and propose future directions