2021 Best Defense Eddies! Nominees & Winner

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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 highlights campaigns that strategically defended important policy; sometimes, the most significant wins are actually holding […]

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2021 Best Collaboration Eddies! Nominees & Winner

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 coalitions of leaders and organizations who worked together to achieve a significant impact […]

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2021 Game Changer Campaign of the Year Eddies! Nominees & Winner

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 recognizes local, state, or national advocacy campaigns that tackled a big problem and achieved […]

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2021 Power to the People Eddies! Nominees & Winner

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 […]

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2021 Suzanne Kubach PIE Network Weaver of the Year Nominees & Winner

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 […]

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2020 Virtual Summit

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 […]

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2019 PIE Network Annual Summit

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, […]

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2018 PIE Network Annual Summit

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 […]

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Eddies! Honor Exemplary Advocacy

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 […]

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