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 […]

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2024 Eddies Awards: Most Actionable Tools & Research

The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category spotlights resources or tools that shed new light on pressing and widespread problems or solutions and that state and local advocates across the Network leveraged to make a compelling case for policy change and achieve breakthroughs. See a complete list of 2024 […]

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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 […]

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Spotlight Schools: High-Poverty Schools That Are Raising The Bar

Audience: PIE Network Leaders We hear a lot about what’s not working in education right now. This session will focus on what is working. Join Charles Barone and Rianna Saslow (Education Reform Now) to learn about the programs and policies that have driven success within high-performing, high-poverty schools across Colorado and Massachusetts. Saslow and Barone […]

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Using Accountability Systems to Drive School Improvement

Audience: PIE Network Leaders Assessment and accountability systems provide critical information on student performance across schools and districts. How can we use that information to drive school improvement? Join this conversation with Kunjan Narechania (Watershed Advisors), who will lead this learning session, focusing on the critical challenges and opportunities in replicating and scaling successful school […]

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Connecting the Dots – The Need for State Longitudinal Data Systems

Audience: PIE Network Leaders State Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDSs) are an integral part of conversations about state career-connected learning policy. Join this discussion with Anne Wicks (George W. Bush Institute) and Brennan McMahon Parton (Data Quality Campaign) to discuss why SLDSs are so important to meaningfully connect workforce, higher education, K-12, and early childhood outcome data and to learn […]

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Math Multipliers: Math Interventions and Expanded Learning Time

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 how advocates can support continued math learning recovery through interventions and expanded learning time, including summer learning. Thomas Maffai (The Oakland REACH) […]

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Math Multipliers Series: Math Policy – State Levers

Audience: PIE Network Leaders Given the alarming 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 actions advocates can take on a state level to impact math outcomes. We’ll hear from Marissa Payzant, Allyson […]

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BRAND NEW DATA ON RECOVERY: Updated Education Recovery Scorecard Data

Audience: PIE Network Leaders The team at Education Recovery Scorecard has been working hard to analyze student achievement data that has been recently released from about half of the states in the country. The analysis helps identify which districts were (and were not) successful in the 2022-23 school year at helping students recover lost learning. […]

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