Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations Strong funding strategies go beyond grant writing. Join the Community Funding Accelerator (CFA) for a webinar on how advocates can identify and pursue funding opportunities, including submitting strong proposals, and maintaining momentum and alignment from application to implementation. CFA will also spotlight their new Grant Readiness Toolkit, which […]
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Monthly Federal Policy Forecasts: What Advocates Need to Know with Lindsay Fryer
Audience: PIE Network Executive Directors or Designee Join policy expert Lindsay Fryer (Lodestone DC) for a monthly deep dive into the shifting landscape of federal education policy. These conversations will provide timely insights into how evolving political dynamics in the White House, Congress, and the U.S. Department of Education may impact education policy nationwide. Lindsay […]
The SEA’s Role in Funding: Structures, Policies, and What Advocates Can Do
Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations State and district budgets are under growing pressure, from post-ESSER rightsizing, rising costs, declining enrollment, and more. Some states are taking action to help districts budget and spend effectively by developing unified funding applications (Super Apps), using current funding flexibility, or requesting a federal funding waiver. Join this […]
Instructional Coherence at Scale
Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations When core instruction, intervention, and tutoring pull in different directions, the students furthest behind carry the cost. Instructional coherence is the design principle that ties them together, and getting it right is as much an implementation challenge as a policy one. In this session, Devon Gadow (TNTP) will […]
Scholarship Granting Organizations — Building the Infrastructure for Student Success
Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations In the second session of our Federal Tax Credit Scholarship series, we take a closer look at Scholarship Granting Organizations (SGOs) — how they are established, how they operate, and what it takes for states to cultivate a strong network of SGOs that serve the public interest across […]
Monitoring Implementation: Tools and Approaches for Advocates
Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations Join Stacey Alicea and Poorvaja Sundar (Research Partnership for Professional Learning, RPPL) for an interactive session exploring RPPL’s Shared Measures Curriculum-Based Professional Learning ELA and Math Implementation Toolkit — a practical resource for monitoring High Quality Instructional Materials and Curriculum-Based Professional Learning implementation across literacy and math. Participants […]
Monthly Federal Policy Forecasts: What Advocates Need to Know with Lindsay Fryer
Audience: PIE Network Executive Directors or Designee Join policy expert Lindsay Fryer (Lodestone DC) for a monthly deep dive into the shifting landscape of federal education policy. These conversations will provide timely insights into how evolving political dynamics in the White House, Congress, and the U.S. Department of Education may impact education policy nationwide. Lindsay will break […]
Making College Affordable – Session 1: The Affordability Landscape: Measuring and Driving Progress
Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations Postsecondary affordability means different things to different students — and measuring it requires looking beyond sticker prices to net costs, working hours, and long-term outcomes. This session with Crystal Collins, Justin Draeger, and Stephen Payne (Strada Education Foundation) will provide an overview of the current affordability landscape, examine key data and frameworks […]
Know the Details: Navigating Religious Charter School Challenges
Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations Last May, the Supreme Court’s 4-4 decision in St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond left open the possibility that future cases could return the issue of religious charter schools to the Court. Now, a number of state lawsuits may do just that in the next […]
Shifting Teachers’ Literacy Practice
Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations Policies to advance evidence-based literacy have swept through statehouses—but have they changed what happens in classrooms? In this discussion, David Griffith (Thomas B. Fordham Institute) will present findings from a new survey of teachers, and Robert Pondiscio (AEI), Rina Gratz (Prichard Committee), and Lasana Tunica-El (E4E-NY) will share what’s working, what isn’t, and what comes next […]