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.

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.

Teachers can accelerate learning by creating motivating classroom conditions. Highlighting the Elevate framework, this research brief focuses on quantifying the relationship between math achievement and the Elevate learning conditions, as well as variability in conditions over time. Key highlights include:

A longer-form guide geared towards education advocates so they can speak across partisan divides in their communications.

The Canopy tags are a common language for describing 72 of the most common practices in innovative schools. These tags were designed collaboratively by 10+ organizations in an attempt to break down silos and make it easier to share information about innovative schools and learning environments. They are free and open source to use, adapt,…

The Canopy project is a repository of collective knowledge about a diverse set of 250+ innovative K-12 learning environments. Nominating organizations from across the country identified communities implementing equitable, student-centered learning models to be included in the Canopy. Many of those learning environments contributed data on their approaches, providing a picture of emerging innovative practices…