Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations Charter school leaders are navigating several challenges at the federal, state, and local levels. In this session, Natalie Ethridge (NAPCS) and Amanda Fenton (NACSA) will give an overview of the federal standing of charter schools, including the Charter School Program, the transfer of U.S. Department of Education functions to other agencies, and […]
State: Tennessee
Looking Back to Move Forward: Lessons and Practical Recommendations from a Decade of Research
After ten years of research, Learning Heroes has compiled a report highlighting top insights and their implications for the future of education. Bibb Hubbard and David Park (Learning Heroes) will be joined by Colleston Morgan (City Forward Collective), Sonya Thomas (Nashville Propel), and Maya Martin Cadogan (DC PAVE) to discuss Learning Heroes’ findings and how each of them have contributed to and utilized that work […]
2025 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 […]
2025 Eddies Awards: Best Kept Secret
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. Best Kept Secret features replicable and innovative policy and advocacy work led by state and local advocates driving meaningful changes for students and families. We asked the Nomination Committee to pick from Honorable Mentions across all categories to identify finalists for Best […]
2025 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 […]
2025 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 unique 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 […]
UPDATED STATE ASSESSMENT DATA: New Education Recovery Scorecard Release
Join this private briefing for the PIE Network membership on new data from the new Education Recovery Scorecard, which is scheduled to be released on February 11th. The Scorecard is the only source of nationally comparable, district-level outcome data, created by combining state assessment scores with the recent NAEP results. Tom Kane and Christina Grant from Harvard’s Center for Education […]
Meet the 2025 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 […]
7 Best Practices for Making Your Reports Matter
Audience: PIE Network Leaders How can we ensure our research and policy reports don’t just sit on virtual shelves but drive real-world change for students and families? In this session, you will hear 7 field-tested best practices that have helped PIE Network organizations transform their reports into meaningful action and impact. You’ll learn practical techniques […]
Building Better Schools: Insights from Innovative Public Schools
Audience: PIE Network Leaders Recent research from NewSchools documents how schools in its portfolio are able to outperform traditional models to achieve exceptional academic and social-emotional outcomes. Join this conversation led by Mia Howard (NewSchools) with pioneering school founders Kristle Hodges Johnson (University High School, TN), Declan O’Connor (Discovery Polytech Early College Prep HS, MA), […]