Centering Student Experience: A Playbook for Improving Student Outcomes by Centering Student Experience

Uploaded on: November 14, 2023

Primary Author(s): BELE

This playbook from the BELE Network represents the culmination of BELE’s contributions to the education space. It is designed to be a tool for folks across the education space to leverage research-backed, role-specific resources that offer a path to bring practices and policies that center student experience to the classroom.

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