Audience: Leaders Who Pre-Register for this Session During Summit Registration At the 2024 PIE Network Summit, Amanda Bickerstaff (AI for Education) will host a two-part workshop to help participants learn how to leverage generative AI to fuel their policy and advocacy campaigns. Please express your interest in this workshop when you register for the 2024 […]
Policy Pillar: Responsive Systems
Turning Crowds into Co-Conspirators: Strategies for Community Organizers
Local organizing is deeply relational work. Yet, time is limited, and the need to make an impact by building power with many community members is significant. Join us to hear from Sonya Thomas (PROPEL), about how she and her team are using mass organizing; a practice of building relationships with large groups of people all […]
Best Practices for Setting Your Annual Parent Agenda
DC Pave is a leader in our field for a truly democratic process to determine their policy agenda. Their signature Parent Policy Summit enables parents across DC to decide what issues the organization will work on. Learn how they have designed this approach, what lessons they have learned, and what is so powerful about giving […]
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 […]
Understanding State Longitudinal Data Systems
Audience: PIE Network Leaders Data is one tool to help students along their education and workforce journeys. State leaders have a responsibility to invest in robust statewide longitudinal data systems (SLDS) that provide meaningful information that helps students decide what comes next, and policymakers ensure that resources are being used to improve education. That doesn’t […]
Colorado’s New Funding Formula: A Conversation with Advocacy Leaders
Colorado leaders made big moves in the 2024 legislative session, as the state passed a major bill to modernize its education finance system and direct resources where they are needed most, updating the school finance formula for the first time in 30 years. Join this session to hear from PIE Network leaders Brenda Dickhoner (ReadyCO), Dan Schaller (CO League […]
Spotlight Schools: High-Poverty Schools That Are Raising The Bar
Audience: PIE Network Leaders We hear a lot about what’s not working in education right now. This session will focus on what is working. Join Charles Barone and Rianna Saslow (Education Reform Now) to learn about the programs and policies that have driven success within high-performing, high-poverty schools across Colorado and Massachusetts. Saslow and Barone […]
Meet the 2024 Eddies Nomination Committee
The annual Eddies Awards are an opportunity to amplify, celebrate, and learn from advocacy campaigns and leaders driving impactful policy change for every student in every community. The Eddies help show progress for students and the power of advocacy—a message that feels more important than ever. Each year, a committee of Network leaders shares feedback […]
Calculating School Options and Education Funding
Audience: PIE Network Leaders As public investment in school choice programs rises, whare are the financial implications for states and districts? Join Marguerite Roza and Maggie Ciccio (Edunomics Lab), who will share a real-time analysis of how many public dollars are flowing through private options and discuss these trends fit into broader state revenues outlook. […]
Developing State Governance Models for Youth Apprenticeship
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