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The PIE Network connects advocates across the country, strengthening, supporting, and promoting each other’s efforts. The power of these connections grows, exponentially. Organizations strengthen. The movement accelerates. So that the greatest impact can be realized, and every student, in every community, has the educational opportunities and experiences necessary to achieve a future without limits.

Advocacy and policy work is dynamic and ever-evolving.

PIE Network keeps a pulse on emerging issues, adapts quickly, and brings advocates together to share ideas, insights, and know-how that can be put into action.

Through a combination of PIE Network’s formal programming and professional learning, on-demand 1:1 support, and informal connections, Network leaders leverage the power of connection to people, know-how, and ideas to spark innovation, sharpen strategy, and maximize efforts to improve education policy and practice so that every student, from every community, can succeed.

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The best single ‘gathering place’ of education advocates in the United States for networking, sharing and learning best practices.

Tony Roberts – Georgia Charter Schools Association

In a year riddled with uncertainty, PIE Network kept us in touch with the fast-arising research needs from the field and provided a conduit for disseminating knowledge back out to the field.

Robin Lake – Center on Reinventing Public Education

Thanks so much for the connect! I’m grateful to have you and members of the PIE community to turn to in this moment…. Think of this as the PIE bat signal.

Jana Wilcox Lavin – Opportunity 180

PIE Network Annual Summit Virtual Conversations Engage With Members

By sharing strategies, lessons learned, tools, and know-how from state advocates and national partners, PIE Network is a resource multiplier, helping leaders make a compelling case for policy change and achieve breakthroughs.

PIE Network sythensizes and aggregates what’s happening in real time across the Network and sector through trackers, landscape scans, case studies and policy briefs. Network members and partners get weekly updates featuring resources, research, and relevant polling.

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As an org that does primarily hyper local policy, we need access to spaces created by PIE Network to be pushed outside our own context. We need to see examples and best practices and different approaches to similar challenges.

Thomas Maffai – GO Public Schools Oakland

Thank you for making us better and arming us with what works now.

Emily Anne Gullickson – A for Arizona

The resources that PIE has pulled together and curated has helped me better serve our stakeholders and provide them with strategic information.

Christy Wolfe – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

Network Recovery Scan Federal Education Relief & Recovery Funds The Eddies!

Now, perhaps more than ever, we need strong leaders to drive education reinvention. PIE network helps leaders maintain high impact over the long haul, through a strong peer community, cohort-based experiences, and professional development focused on science-based practices for leadership and advocacy.

Advocacy is both hard work and heart work. The Network gives leaders access to connections with peers, ideas, and expertise that can help sustain and advance their work.

Learn more about Network leadership resources and opportunities.

PIE Network is the source of all high-quality PD for our team. We always look forward to connecting, collaborating, and learning from the amazing organizations in the network.

MacKenzie Stroh Hines – Mississippi First

I found the Executives’ Meeting an incredible source of connection and resources. As a new leader, it was great to be in community with seasoned industry leaders learning from the rich discussions.

Lisa Lizare – Educators for Excellence-Boston

Thank you for a very successful and rewarding Executives’ Meeting. Not a minute was wasted and I could have done three more days of it.

Colin Sharkey – American Association of Educators

The Leadership Institute pushes leadership beyond what business school case studies tell you and beyond what is traditionally done in education advocacy organizations. I feel like I have a toolbox of ideas for approaching challenges in new ways.

Leadership Institute Alum

I have so loved meeting PIE members through your monthly profiles that align to celebrations of identity. I feel so much more connected to those who do the work.

Natalie Tovani-Walchuk – GO Public West Contra Costa

Leadership Institute Spring Executives’ Meeting Centering Diverse Leaders

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