Audience: PIE Network Researchers Join the Research Working Group’s January bi-monthly meeting! As is our tradition, this month, we’ll share our research agendas for the coming year as well as the achievements we’re proud of from 2024. Please come ready to share your 2025 research agenda and tools or research from 2024. Register to join. […]
Topic: Data Systems
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November Research Working Group Meeting
Audience: PIE Network Researchers Join the Research Working Group’s November bi-monthly meeting! This month, as requested, we’ll revisit the conversation on AI–examining new tools, and Malachi Nichols (Arkansas Learns) will share some tips for leveraging tools in research work. Please come ready to share about the ways you’re using AI on your team and in […]
PIE Network: Research Working Group September Meeting
Join the Research Working Group’s September bi-monthly meeting! This month, we’ll discuss chronic absenteeism, both defining the problem and shedding light on promising practices. We’ll hear from fellow researchers on initiatives in their states before diving into a group discussion on the topic. Please come ready to share about chronic absenteeism work happening in your […]
2024 Eddies Awards: Suzanne Kubach PIE Network Weaver of the Year

The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category honors an individual local, state, or national leader who embodies the “give and get” spirit of PIE Network. Recipients of this award consistently work to build and strengthen the impact of the Network and the sector. This category recognizes individuals who are […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]
Using Data to Drive College & Career Success: Workforce Data – Challenges & Opportunities
Workforce data is essential to understanding what happens when our students leave high school and college, but it can also be one of the trickiest pieces of the SLDS puzzle. Join this session with Brennan McMahon Parton (DQC) and Angela Perry (DQC) to learn about what we mean when we say “workforce data,” how it […]