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.

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.

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.

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:

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…

Students learn more effectively and are more motivated when the teacher develops routines and systems that contribute to the smooth functioning of the classroom—when they experience a well-organized classroom. Created to support Cultivate and Elevate users or any educators interested in improving learning conditions, this guide introduces research, principles, practices, and measures related to a…

Students learn more effectively and are more likely to feel valued when their teachers provide them with the instructional support to be successful—when they experience supportive teaching. Created to support Cultivate and Elevate users or any educators interested in improving learning conditions, this guide introduces research, principles, practices, and measures related to supportive teaching.

Students learn more effectively when it is clear to them what they are supposed to be learning and how it fits into the big ideas of that subject area—when they experience learning goals. Created to support Cultivate and Elevate users or any educators interested in improving learning conditions, this guide introduces research, principles, practices, and…

Students take ownership of their learning and are more actively engaged in their schoolwork when they have choices, share their ideas, and feel heard—when they experience student voice. Created to support Cultivate and Elevate users or any educators interested in improving learning conditions, this guide introduces research, principles, practices, and measures related to student voice.