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.

*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…

*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…

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.

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…

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…

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.