Amid a growing crisis in the educator workforce, state and district leaders are eager for promising strategies to attract and retain great teachers. In this conversation, Charles Barone (National Parents Union), Andrew Epifanio (Education Reform Now), Ryan Franklin (Philanthropy Advocates), and Shannon Holston (National Council on Teacher Quality) will share the current landscape of state approaches to strategic and performance pay, a deeper […]
Topic: Educator Compensation & Career Ladders
New Polling: Primary Voters’ Opinions on Key Education Issues
In late summer 2025, PIE Network worked with bipartisan pollsters, Up One Insights and Impact Research, to survey voters about their opinions on key education issues. Given the growing evidence that general elections are less competitive, this survey oversampled primary voters to gain a clearer understanding of voters’ views. The findings illuminate broad cross-partisan support […]
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 […]
Top Ten Issues to Watch 2025
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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 […]
“So hard, but so rewarding:” How school system leaders are scaling up strategic school staffing models
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The Current Landscape to Reimagine Teaching
Audience: ASU Site Visit Participants and PIE Network Leaders With teachers’ job satisfaction at record lows and as staffing challenges continue to disrupt learning acceleration efforts, advocates are eager for promising ideas to transform the teaching profession. As a primer for Network leaders joining the upcoming site visit to ASU Next Education Workforce–and for any […]
North Carolina Principal Fellows Program
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