Empowering Students as Decision Makers
Integrate Decision Education into your school, district, or state framework.
About the Incubator
An increasing number of school districts and states across the country recognize the importance of including decision-making skills in their curriculum, values, and graduate profiles, but what does that mean in practice?
The Alliance for Decision Education is excited to share our latest Decision Education Incubator—your opportunity to define what it looks like to empower students as decision makers and take meaningful steps to integrate Decision Education into your school, district, or state’s framework.
Applications for the Decision Education Incubator will be accepted until June 6.
Why Get Involved?
You can make Decision Education real in your school, district, or state by participating in the Incubator. Through the Decision Education Incubator, you will:
Define and Bring Your Ideas to Life
Outline how decision-making skills fit into your graduate profile or curriculum.
Develop a Roadmap
Work alongside education leaders and experts to create an actionable plan.
Integrate Decision Education
Equip your students with critical skills.
Be Part of a Transformative Movement
The Decision Education Incubator is not just about adding another item to the curriculum—it’s about equipping students to navigate complex challenges, think critically, and lead with agency.
Who is This Opportunity Open To?
School and district leaders shaping curriculum and graduate profiles
Educators looking to embed decision-making into existing content
State education leaders interested in integrating Decision Education at a systems level
Eligibility
- You represent a US-based public or charter school, district, or state.
- You seek new solutions for teaching decision-making skills and concepts to K-12 students.
- You have a team of 3-8 staff who are invested in the work of designing and implementing a new instructional model. Staff can include teachers, leaders, and other school or district staff.
- You will pilot your new instructional model with students in the 2025-2026 school year.
- You are excited to work together to amplify the Decision Education movement.
What Does Participation Look Like?
- Designate a team of 3-8 people to lead the work. This can include teachers, leaders, and other school or district staff.
- Engage in live, virtual professional learning and coaching sessions with the Alliance.
- Work as a team to design, draft, and share an instructional model that teaches Decision Education skills and concepts.
- Pilot the instructional model with at least one grade level of students.
- Collect relevant student and teacher data and artifacts to document learning, implementation strategies, and the student experience to share with the Alliance and, eventually, other schools.
What Support Will We Receive?
Each team accepted into the Decision Education Incubator receives:
- Up to $5,000 in funding for professional learning and materials.
- Professional learning opportunities geared toward your goals.
- Individualized coaching, partnership, and support from the Alliance.
- Collaboration with other schools and districts in the Incubator Network.
- Potential media coverage, including features on schools, staff, and students.
- An opportunity to empower students with decision-making skills and the agency to apply them.
Take the First Step
Complete the interest form to receive updates and application details!
Be part of a growing movement to ensure Decision Education is part of every student’s learning experience. Applications for the Decision Education Incubator will be accepted on a rolling basis beginning in April.
For additional questions, view our FAQs or contact abby@alliancefordecisioneducation.org
What Students from Previous Decision Education Incubator Schools are Saying
“I’m more open-minded when it comes to making critical decisions about my future.”
11th Grader, Lincoln College Preparatory Academy
“I have learned how to separate the outcome of my decisions from the decision itself to more clearly see if the decisions I make are good.”
10th Grader, Cabarrus-Kannapolis Early College High School
“Learning about decision-making concepts has helped me realize that I am not always great at choosing between options. It has made me realize that I need structure in decision-making.”
11th Grader, Lincoln College Preparatory Academy
