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2024 Eddies Awards: Best Implementation
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. Best Implementation highlights the necessary implementation work to ensure that breakthrough policies or laws lead to sustained impact for students. Advocates know that passing policy is only the beginning of the work to change outcomes and opportunities for students. See a complete […]
2024 Eddies Awards: Best Defense
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. Best Defense highlights campaigns that strategically defended important policy at significant risk and overcame significant odds using innovative tactics; sometimes, the most significant wins are actually holding the line. Nominees in this category provide models for how to deploy sharp strategies to […]
2024 Eddies Awards: Best Collaboration
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category Features coalitions of leaders and organizations who worked together to achieve a significant impact for students and families. Working in coalition can be incredibly powerful—and incredibly challenging. This category honors the hard work of coalitions that organized artfully to respond […]
2024 Eddies Awards: Game Changer Campaign of the Year
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category recognizes local, state, or national advocacy campaigns that tackled a big problem and achieved a new, game-changing policy. Sometimes a policy window opens quickly, and advocates move fast; sometimes, the window opens after years of sustained advocacy efforts. Either way, nominees in […]
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 […]
Math Multipliers Series: Math Advocacy Campaigns: Cities Leading the Way
Audience: PIE Network Leaders Given the concerning state of student achievement in math, Network members are taking action to improve math outcomes. As a part of the PIE Network Math Multipliers series, this session will focus on local math advocacy campaigns. The discussion will explore the levers advocates can use to impact math in their […]
Welcoming New Network Members and Partners in 2024
PIE Network is designed by and for education advocates. Members of the PIE Network are united by a belief that education can—and should—be transformative. PIE Network members put these beliefs into action by listening to, engaging, and authentically elevating the leadership of students, families, and educators, using data and evidence to drive innovation, improvement, and […]
Working Group: Preparing for the Fiscal Cliff
A storm is brewing in school finance, with expiring ESSER funds, declining enrollment, and other financial challenges on the horizon. This conversation is part of a series hosted by PIE Network to help advocates prepare for the fiscal cliff in their states and communities. In this discussion, Lynn Jennings (The Education Trust) will share resources […]
Rulers & Pencils Happy Hour
Join your DC-area PIE Network colleagues for the third Rulers and Pencils happy hour convening in-person on Tuesday, October 10th, from 4:00 – 6:00 pm ET at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute offices located at 1015 18th St NW, Washington, D.C. 20036. We’ll network, enjoy some refreshments, and speak with four of the members of […]