Alliance for Decision Education

Dedicated to ensuring #DecisionEducation is a part of every student's learning experience. Creator of The Decision Education Podcast. Co-founded by @AnnieDuke.

[Alliance for Decision Education @AllDecisionEd]

With our free family decision-making workbook, you can keep your kids engaged in learning all summer long!

Use our decision checklist to work through balancing different priorities and considering long-term impacts with your family.

Learn about thinking traps like confirmation bias and sunk-cost fallacy to help your family better understand how our brains work when making decisions quickly.

The best time to build strong decision-making habits with your family is now! Download “Raising Better Decision Makers” for free!

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How do we prepare students not just to succeed, but to thrive, in a future shaped by AI and constant change? And how can we build these essential skills without adding more to already full classrooms?

In last month’s edWeb webinar, “Teaching Decision-Making Skills for STEM Readiness: From Classroom to Career,” our Education Senior Manager, Kevin Parkinson explored how Decision Education can be integrated into the teaching you’re already doing, helping students apply what they know in meaningful ways, allowing them to navigate a world of uncertainty and complexity.

A recording of the webinar is available now! Watch and share with anyone who may be interested in bringing decision-making skills to their classroom.
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Decision Education was always urgent, but as Decision Education Advocate Tony Pray explores, AI has made the need for DE even more pressing! He explores how even as AI evolves, human judgment remains imperative. Check out his piece now!

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Join us in welcoming Michael Walker, Ed.D., to the Alliance Education Advisory Council! He brings over 30 years of leadership experience in independent and international schools and has served as a teacher, coach, division head, and head of school.

Dr. Walker believes in the importance of Decision Education, saying, “By making decision-making visible and teachable, we prepare students not only for academic success but also for navigating uncertainty, complexity, and consequence throughout their lives. Decision Education, therefore, is not an add-on; it is foundational to preparing students for the demands of the real world.”

We’re excited to work with Dr. Walker to raise awareness of the transformative power of Decision Education.

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Our team is growing, and we’re looking for candidates passionate about data, K-12 education, and decision-making!

We’re hiring an Evaluation, Impact, and Research Senior Manager to lead the design, implementation, and management of data collection, analysis, and reporting activities across K–12 Decision Education initiatives.

Are you or someone you know a great fit for this role? Learn more and apply!
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What if we encouraged students to think like detectives?

In this piece for @educationweek, @Larryferlazzo explores the power of inductive learning, which encourages students to identify patterns and the reasoning behind them—one of many essential skills taught in Decision Education.

Read the article to see how educators like Joe Schmidt, Alliance Education Advisory Council member, empower students to evaluate primary sources, think like historians, and analyze real-world case studies of civic engagement.

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[Alliance for Decision Education @AllDecisionEd]

Do you want to practice decision-making skills with your family?

Check out our free family workbook, “Raising Better Decision Makers.”

It’s full of tools to help you think through options, consider consequences, and become better decision makers.

Download our workbook and give your family the gift of better decision-making today!

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As the United States marks its 250th anniversary in 2026, educators have a unique opportunity to explore how decisions were made amid uncertainty at the nation’s founding.

In this blog post, Joe Schmidt, Alliance Education Advisory Council member and Executive Director of K–12 Education at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, invites readers to use history as a “decision lab,” exploring how the Structuring Decisions domain of the Decision Education Learning Standards can be applied to historical scenarios, helping students step into the past to build decision-making skills for today.

@madisonteacher

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Dr. Susan Fuhrman has joined our Advisory Council! Dr. Susan Fuhrman is President Emerita of @TeachersCollege, Columbia University, founding Director of @CPREresearch, and Past President of @NAEduc.

Dr. Fuhrman believes Decision Education is key to helping students navigate our current landscape, saying, “In an AI world, a key skill will be ‘discernment.’ Individuals will need to decide what is real, relevant, and true, and reject the opposite. This will involve relying less on doing original research than in a pre-AI world and more refined abilities around decision-making and selecting.”

We’re thankful for the experience Dr. Fuhrman brings to the Decision Education movement as a nationally recognized leader in education policy. Welcome to the Advisory Council, Dr. Fuhrman!

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@JennyGRankin Thank you so much for sharing!

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Even decision makers in professional sports leagues like the @NBA can fall prey to thinking traps.

In this article for @TheAthletic by Dr. Jennifer Lerner, @Harvard professor and Alliance Ambassador Council member, and Dr. Brian Gill, GiveWell senior researcher and Mathematica senior fellow, explore why the gambler’s fallacy, resulting, and other thinking errors are so common among fans, executives, and media members alike.

What did this piece teach you about decision-making?

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Our free decision-making workbook helps your family work through decisions, big and small, together.

Find practical tools to help all family members think through options, consider outcomes, and become overall better decision makers.

Download our free family workbook “Raising Better Decision Makers” today!

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We’re thrilled to have Reggie Browne join our Ambassador Council! As a principal at GTS, a leading electronic market-making firm, he leads strategy, vision, and client engagement for the firm’s customer business in partnership with Mischler Financial.

Reggie recognizes how Decision Education prepares students for the future, saying, “As students enter the workforce and society, these skills lead to better problem-solving, stronger teamwork, and more thoughtful, engaged citizens.”

We’re excited to work together to raise awareness of the power of decision-making skills. Please join us in welcoming Reggie!
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@WomenTechTribe Thank you for sharing! Check out another piece of ours in eSchool News: "Career readiness starts with a critical, undertaught skill: Decision Education." https://t.co/GG4ymBQTj3

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Please join us in welcoming Dr. Mardy Leathers, DMgt to our Workforce Council! He is a policy economist and founder of Hashtag Strategies, where he advises senior government leaders and global executives on economic security, industrial strategy, and national competitiveness amid accelerating geopolitical and technological change.

Dr. Leathers supports the Alliance’s mission, saying, “Decision Education is essential because it provides students with the cognitive tools needed to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and trade-offs—conditions that increasingly characterize our economy and society.”

We’re thankful for the extensive experience Dr. Leathers brings to the Workforce Council.
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How do we prepare K-12 students to navigate a world of complex choices? One of our Senior Teaching Fellows, Tola Atewologun, recently joined the Coffee with a Geek podcast to discuss how Decision Education bridges the gap between practical financial literacy and deep critical thinking.

Drawing on his background as a former public sector financial analyst, Tola shares how he uses real-world intellectual debates to empower the next generation. He and host Andy Wheelock dive into why cultivating sound decision-making habits sequentially throughout a student’s schooling journey is so vital.

Thank you, Andy, for an insightful conversation on how we can better equip students for the future!

You can watch their discussion below, or listen on your favorite podcast platform.
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@Techbradwaid Thank you for sharing! Check out one of our other pieces for @eschoolnews, "Career readiness starts with a critical, undertaught skill: Decision Education." https://t.co/GG4ymBQTj3

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Thanks to everyone who joined our EdWeb webinar, “Teaching Decision-Making Skills for STEM Readiness: From Classroom to Career,” earlier this week!

We loved exploring how Decision Education can be integrated into the teaching you’re already doing, helping students apply what they know in meaningful ways, allowing them to navigate a world of uncertainty and complexity.

A recording of the webinar is available now! Watch and share with anyone who may be interested in bringing decision-making skills to their classroom.
https://t.co/5NJvEaHR2c

[Alliance for Decision Education @AllDecisionEd]

We’d love for you to join our team!

We’re looking for a Head of Technology to provide strategic oversight and hands-on management of our technology ecosystem. This role will build a technology environment that supports our rapidly growing work, helping all of our technology and goals work together. #Salesforce #GoogleWorkspace #Website #DataManagement

If this sounds like a good fit for you or someone you know, learn more and apply!
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What if STEM success starts with better decision-making?

Decision Education can help students build critical thinking, evaluate risk, and see themselves in STEM: https://t.co/Hlc0291jbD

#STEM #CareerReadiness #TNed