National Association Of State Boards Of Education

Nasbe conducts work through various projects. These projects often include state networks, technical assistance and professional development programs. Active projects during 2024 included: early childhood education state network, which works with state education agencies and state boards of education to use their authority and influence to investigate and impact various policy and practice issues related to early childhood education including workforce quality, access, service quality, and curricular materials. Early literacy working group which serves to support state board of education members committed to improving early literacy outcomes for students through greater understanding and the advancement of policies and practices that support the science of reading. Promoting principal quality, which disseminates information and cultivates knowledge about the characteristics of high-quality principals and the policies and practices needed to recruit, develop and support them. Healthy school facilities network, which promotes the understanding of the potential problem of lead in school drinking water, and strategies for addressing it, as well as the importance of learning environments in schools that are oriented toward maintaining and supporting student health. High school transformation network, which is focused on helping state boards of education understand the need to transform the high school experience for many students through creating policy and practice conditions that enable innovation and transformative practices. High quality instructional materials awareness initiative, seeks to engage state board of education members as champions of the greater use of high quality instructional materials and promoting the importance of professional development for the effective use of such materials.

The standard and publications nasbe serves as a rich source of information for its members, producing original, timely information on educations most pressing issues via webinars, meetings, and publications in the following formats: education leaders reports cover current topics as well as over-the-horizon thinking on education. They provide a deep dive into the background on policy issues, relevant research, and practical steps that the research findings imply for state policymaking. The state education standard: the standard is nasbes peer-reviewed journal. It is written by subject-matter experts and provides insight into select education policy issues of the day. New issues are published every january, may, and september. Policy updates are two- to four-page briefs on changes in federal education policy, state policy impacts, and trends in education. State innovations provide concise examples of the policymaking experiences of state boards of education. These reports serve as a source of new ideas for other states policymaking, contacts to enable cross-state networking on key issues, and benchmarking. Power of the question: these reports distill major issues in education into key questions that state board members can ask fellow state policymakers, advocates, and stakeholders to guide and advance education decision making in their states. Boardsmanship reviews offer practical ideas on how to become a better member of a state board of education. State policy database on school health is an online policy database that covers policy related to student health issues. This database aligns all existing state statutory and regulatory language on student health to the components of the center for disease control and preventions framework for school health promotion, known as the whole school, whole community, whole child model.

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