Audience: PIE Network Leaders How can we ensure our research and policy reports don’t just sit on virtual shelves but drive real-world change for students and families? In this session, you will hear 7 field-tested best practices that have helped PIE Network organizations transform their reports into meaningful action and impact. You’ll learn practical techniques […]
State: Texas
2024 Eddies Awards: Best Collaboration
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category Features coalitions of leaders and organizations who worked together to achieve a significant impact for students and families. Working in coalition can be incredibly powerful—and incredibly challenging. This category honors the hard work of coalitions that organized artfully to respond […]
2024 Eddies Awards: Most Actionable Tools & Research
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category spotlights resources or tools that shed new light on pressing and widespread problems or solutions and that state and local advocates across the Network leveraged to make a compelling case for policy change and achieve breakthroughs. See a complete list of 2024 […]
2024 Eddies Awards: Game Changer Campaign of the Year
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category recognizes local, state, or national advocacy campaigns that tackled a big problem and achieved a new, game-changing policy. Sometimes a policy window opens quickly, and advocates move fast; sometimes, the window opens after years of sustained advocacy efforts. Either way, nominees in […]
Connecting the Dots – The Need for State Longitudinal Data Systems
Audience: PIE Network Leaders State Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDSs) are an integral part of conversations about state career-connected learning policy. Join this discussion with Anne Wicks (George W. Bush Institute) and Brennan McMahon Parton (Data Quality Campaign) to discuss why SLDSs are so important to meaningfully connect workforce, higher education, K-12, and early childhood outcome data and to learn […]
Welcoming New Network Members and Partners in 2024
PIE Network is designed by and for education advocates. Members of the PIE Network are united by a belief that education can—and should—be transformative. PIE Network members put these beliefs into action by listening to, engaging, and authentically elevating the leadership of students, families, and educators, using data and evidence to drive innovation, improvement, and […]
DFER Texas
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Testing the Waters: Insights Into Parent Perspectives on Through-Year Assessments
Statewide assessments have become an indispensable source of information on student, school, and system achievement. Some states, like Delaware, Florida, Nebraska, and Texas, are beginning to explore other ways of administering these tests, such as through-year assessments. Join this conversation with Titilayo Tinubu Ali, Michelle Croft, and Bonnie O’Keefe (Bellwether), who wrote this recent report […]
2023 Eddies Awards: Game Changer Campaign of the Year
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category recognizes local, state, or national advocacy campaigns that tackled a big problem and achieved a new, game-changing policy. Sometimes a policy window opens quickly, and advocates move fast; sometimes, the window opens after years of sustained advocacy efforts. Either way, nominees in […]
2023 Eddies Awards: Best Defense
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category highlights campaigns that strategically defended important policy at significant risk and overcame significant odds using innovative tactics; sometimes, the most significant wins are actually holding the line. Nominees in this category provide models for how to deploy sharp strategies to defend policies […]