Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations Join Teach Plus and the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) to discuss a reimagined, hopeful vision for the teaching profession. Following the release of a national Gallup survey on teacher experiences and workforce sustainability, which has sparked national conversation, this session will dive into the data and the real-world […]
Topic: Educator Preparation & Licensure
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: 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 […]
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 Implementation
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. Best Implementation highlights the necessary implementation work to ensure that breakthrough policies or laws have a sustained impact on students. Advocates know that passing policy is only the beginning of the work to change students’ outcomes and opportunities. See a complete list […]
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 […]
Math Multipliers Series: Preparing High-Quality Math Educators
In order to improve student math outcomes, educators must have the requisite confidence, content knowledge and skills, and pedagogical prowess. Teachers need to know how to do more than just follow the steps in math to get the right answer; they need to know why those steps work. Join Ron Noble and Shannon Holston (NCTQ), who will share both their recent […]
Closing the Opportunity Divide: Addressing Michigan’s Teacher Shortage Problem for Students Most in Need
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Fueling the Lone Star Teacher Pipeline: A Landscape Analysis of RTAPs in Texas
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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 […]