Our mission
Improve lives by empowering students with essential skills and dispositions for making better decisions.
We are racing to achieve our mission by raising awareness and increasing demand because our students need Decision Education now.
Our vision
Ensure that Decision Education is part of every student’s learning experience.
We need to succeed because escalating evidence shows that children are struggling and that decision-making skills matter.
What is Decision Education?
Decision Education (DE) is the teaching and learning of skillful judgment formation and decision-making.
Applied across K-12, Decision Education builds in students a set of competencies to support more accurate judgments and more skillful decisions, whether as individuals or as part of a group.
Empowering students with these skills is not just an opportunity, it is an obligation and an imperative. The need for these skills is growing, and our students are clearly struggling.
We work with educators to bring Decision Education to the classroom
Decision Education K-12 Learning Standards
We are proud to publish the first edition of the Decision Education K-12 Learning Standards. Written by educators and researchers, they represent the movement’s first best effort to provide a framework for what K-12 students should know and be able to do, with respect to learning how to be effective decision makers.
Decision Education Teacher Fellowship
Each year, the Alliance invites teachers from across the country—all schools, grades, and subject areas—to apply for a Decision Education Teacher Fellowship that enables them to work collaboratively as part of a cohort, and independently to build skills that will shape their students’ lives.
Latest from the Alliance:
Our Podcast
Episode 027:
Too Many Choices
with Dr. Sheena Iyengar
September 27, 2023Dr. Sheena Iyengar, a professor at Columbia Business School and an expert on choice, joins the podcast to take a look at a powerful strategy that effectively reduces gender bias in hiring, and how our cultural backgrounds significantly influence our approach to decision-making. Dr. Iyengar also reveals her six-step process for fostering innovation, demonstrating that we don't always have to wait for the perfect option to arise – we can actively shape the options we desire.
Our supporters include some of the top thinkers and leaders in the world
Join the growing call to make Decision Education (DE) part of every student’s learning experience—improving their immediate and long-term outcomes and their impact on society.
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