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Design Systems and Structures that Promote Positive Relationships, Collaboration, and Student-Centered Learning
Centering Student Experience: A Playbook for Improving Student Outcomes by Centering Student Experience
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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Adopt Policies that Center Students’ Experiences and Voices
Measuring What Matters: District Policy
*Resource Coming Soon* Measuring What Matters: District Policy provides a starting point of district policy actions for local- and district-level policymakers to consider in the development of policies that center student experience in their systems, and thus advance equity and student success. These policy actions are examples of district-level actions that could help to create…
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Adopt Policies that Center Students’ Experiences and Voices
State Policies for Supporting Student Experience
*Resource Coming Soon* State Policies for Supporting Student Experience seeks to provide a starting point of state policy actions for state-level policymakers to consider in the development of policies that center student experience in their systems, and thus advance equity and student success. These policy actions are examples of state-level actions that could help to…
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Gather, Analyze, and Respond to Feedback and Data on Student Learning
Transferrable Insights
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.
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Adopt Policies that Center Students’ Experiences and Voices
BELE Impact Stories
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.
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Design Systems and Structures that Promote Positive Relationships, Collaboration, and Student-Centered Learning
Transforming the Teacher Role: How Innovative Designs Can Improve Satisfaction, Retention, and Student Experience
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…
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Create Positive Learning Conditions to Transform Students' Daily Experience
Abolish the Bell
The Abolish the Bell Podcast Collective is a movement for reimagining education rooted in a radical legacy of organizing and resistance. The Podcast takes a hard look at the complex history of the education system — what we teach, how we teach it, and why it matters — and envisions a world beyond the system…
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Adopt Policies that Center Students’ Experiences and Voices
Empty Seats at Powerful Tables: The State of School Boards in America
This report analyzes a large-scale, first-of-its-kind survey of elected school board members from across the country, focusing on education leaders of colors. A deeper understanding of their perspectives, priorities, experiences, and challenges is critical to recruiting more diverse candidates and ultimately driving school boards to address structural racism in education.