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The Advocacy Toolbox

Advocating for What Matters

Requires Tools That Matter

A Smarter Way to Speak Up for Schools

Coming Fall 2025

At bravEd, we believe advocacy doesn’t start with outrage—it starts with understanding. The Advocacy Toolbox is being built to help you do both.

The Advocacy Toolbox is first a resource hub and second an online self-paced course. It is designed to equip educators, parents, community leaders, and advocates with the tools they need to speak powerfully and persuasively about what schools actually do—and why it matters.

Whether you're pushing back against misinformation, trying to shift local narratives, or simply want to become a more confident voice for public education, the Toolbox will help you:

  • Understand the mechanics of the current accountability system

  • Learn how to frame your message using evidence that builds trust

  • Access templates, examples, and guides tailored for real conversations

  • Connect your local voice to a growing national effort for change

Speaking up for schools shouldn’t feel like guesswork.

The FairTest/bravEd Measuring What Matters Series

Real accountability requires great evidence. Measuring What Matters puts you on that journey 

John Tanner of bravEd, and Harry Feder of FairTest...

...have teamed up on a topic that matters greatly to a great many people. John teaches about how to account for the things that matter most in a school, and no one is better than Harry at showing how to create evidentiary sources for what matters most.

This series combines their expertise in pragmatic ways for those who need to see the link between performance assessment and a meaningful way to account for what happens in a school. That connection feels elusive, and yet for both John and Harry it is anything but.

This series is appropriate for teachers and administrators alike. To that end, registrants will also be given access to the Accountability Mindset Online, which is a self-paced course that can place these topics into a larger context.

If you are someone who would like to increase your capacity to understand the effectiveness of the teaching practice in your classroom or school, please join our next series.

Apr 30, 2025 Series Registration