The Eddies!—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature outstanding policy and advocacy wins from the past year. Nominations tell the story of how advocates improved policy and advanced opportunity, equity, and excellence for students, one community and campaign at a time. This Eddies! category features grassroots policy and advocacy campaigns at the local level that responded to […]
The Eddies!—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature outstanding policy and advocacy wins from the past year. Nominations tell the story of how advocates improved policy and advanced opportunity, equity, and excellence for students, one community and campaign at a time. This Eddies! category honors local, state, or national leaders who consistently go above and beyond their job […]
The PIE Network Summit is a chance to come together to share, learn, challenge, inspire, and laugh with colleagues from across the country. We can’t be together in-person this year, so instead we will do three things: The PIE Network team will continue to host virtual sessions each week, creating more frequent and regular opportunities […]
“I charge each and every one of you to not forget the fierce urgency of now.” The 2019 PIE Network Summit closing included this advice from Walter Blanks, a communications associate for the American Federation for Children (AFC), and the first private school choice program recipient AFC has hired. In addition to Walter, early college […]
The 2019 Summit is devoted to Spurring Innovation—sparking new ideas to catalyze advocacy and transform education so that all kids graduate world ready. This working meeting is designed to give you space to refresh and sharpen strategies, test big ideas, and make connections with trusted partners. We’ll share, debate, and dig in on policy, research, […]
For more than a decade, advocates for education reform have gathered from across the country to reflect, plan, and celebrate advances in public policy. Every year, the Summit welcomes new leaders to the Network, showcases states with big policy crescendo s, and revisits states where implementation work is underway. This year brings the Network to […]
Advocacy is hard work. Advocates take tough stands and hold strong in sometimes unpopular positions. The Eddies!—annual, advocate-nominated awards—help tell a collective story of education reform over the past year. For every effort that didn’t quite make the finish line, somewhere else, the broader movement moved the dial for kids. Both the Eddies! winners and […]
Often described by advocates and policy thinkers alike as one of the best working meetings in the sector, the annual PIE Network Summit explores perspectives across the ideological spectrum and provides a roughly 60/40 split in structured sessions and unstructured networking opportunities to connect with colleagues from across the country. […]
