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Social, Emotional, and Academic Development (SEAD) Assessments: A Framework for State and District Leaders

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Math Multipliers: Fireside Chat with Zearn’s Shalinee Sharma

Audience: PIE Network Leaders Join national math expert, Zearn founder, and author Shalinee Sharma (Zearn) for a fireside chat with PIE Network leader Jim Cowen (Collaborative for Student Success) to discuss Shalinee’s new book Math Mind. The conversation will explore why math and math mindsets matter for students, teachers, and families, and ways families can […]

PIE Network: Research Working Group September Meeting

Join the Research Working Group’s September bi-monthly meeting! This month, we’ll discuss chronic absenteeism, both defining the problem and shedding light on promising practices. We’ll hear from fellow researchers on initiatives in their states before diving into a group discussion on the topic. Please come ready to share about chronic absenteeism work happening in your […]

2024 Eddies Awards: Most Actionable Tools & Research

Posted on August 14, 2024 (October 10, 2024) by Ashley Schmidt

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 […]

Resource Allocation and SEA/LEA Capacity for School Improvement

Audience: PIE Network Leaders Ensuring every school has the right structures in place to support every student requires us to radically transform our nation’s traditional schooling model. Both state and district leaders must carve the path in that change. SEAs need to deeply understand the levers at their disposal both to create enabling conditions and […]

Crossing the Line: A New Report and Data Tool on School Funding and Segregation

Crossing the Line: Segregation and Resource Inequality Between America’s School Districts, a new report from New America’s Education Funding Equity Initiative, shows where the racial and economic divides between neighboring districts are the deepest, and explores how these disparities show up in school district finances. In this discussion, Zahava Stadler and Jordan Abbott of New […]

Talent Disrupted: Exploring How Well College Students Are Prepared for Employment

While students across the US struggle with college access, affordability, and completion, new research highlights college graduates’ challenges in securing college-level employment. In fact, the report found that only about half of bachelor’s degree graduates secure employment in a college-level job within a year of graduation. Join this virtual discussion with Andrew Hanson (Strada Education […]

Fireside Chat with Author and Journalist Benjamin Herold

Join us for a fireside chat with Benjamin Herold about his latest book, Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs. Herold is a veteran education reporter whose work has appeared in Education Week, PBS NewsHour, Huffington Post, The Hechinger Report, NPR, WHYY, and the Philadelphia Public School Notebook. The Atlantic hailed this new […]