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.

Recommendations from UChicago Consortium and PERTS for successfully implementing new policies and practices based on data from student experience surveys, like Cultivate and Elevate, that address universal pain points.

Discover how teachers across the country responded to challenges in the classroom—from unengaged students to outcome disparities—by gathering specific, meaningful feedback from students to redesign classroom practices and shape better learning conditions that enable students to thrive.

This paper explores five key actions that can be taken to effectively implement student-centered data systems in creating learning environments where all young people feel seen, heard, and able to achieve. Paired with practical examples, these key actions were generated in partnership with BELE learning partners and their experience working with districts to implement Elevate,…

This BELE learning brief highlights how near-peer mentors and Youth Organizing Coaches can help school districts listen to and respond to the experiences of students. The brief explores four key insights on how the role can be implemented in schools to uplift student voices and support education leaders to partner more meaningfully with students.

The Center for Public Research and Leadership at Columbia University worked with the BELE Network to identify bright spot organizations and school systems that are embracing equity-oriented principles with promising effect. This report details four bright spots that are effectively building equitable learning environments, including Kingmakers of Oakland, Equal Opportunity Schools, Mineola Public Schools, and…

The fourth BELE learning brief explores how an elementary school in one of CASEL’s BELE districts worked to build authentic caregiver and community partnerships throughout a year-long project to transform an existing mural. The brief explores three key conditions to sustain authentic partnerships among caregivers, community members, educators, and school leaders.

Yonkers Public Schools worked with the Bank Street Education Center to increase the number of Black and Latinx students receiving supportive, growth-oriented feedback about their learning in math. Emphasizing the interconnectedness of positive learning experiences, this case study shows their success and what they did.

Transforming the Teacher Role is a resource to help schools and districts rise to the challenges of teacher staffing shortages and a dwindling pipeline. As recent dissatisfaction and resignation trends are shedding more light on the need for change, this paper explores innovative staffing models and strategies to transform the experiences of teachers and boost…

Over 5 Elevate cycles, teachers at West Buffalo Charter School partnered with their students and each other to make schoolwide improvements in multiple learning conditions. This case study reveals the steps taken and key insights from the process.