Mark your Calendars!
Registration Opens For the Power of Innovation Summit
At the Ronald Reagan Building, the focus is to chart a course for expanded education opportunity and innovation amidst what will be a sea of leaders at every level.
BREAKING NEWS
Announcing the 2024 Yass Prize Winner - Primer Microschools
BREAKING NEWS
Announcing the 2024 Yass Prize Finalists
Learn About All The Yass Prize and STOP Award Winners!
Important Message about the Future of the Yass Prize
BREAKING NEWS: Learn more about the 2024 Winner and Finalists
Relive the Excitement of the 2024 Yass Prize Announcement from NYC!
In a special event atop One Freedom Tower in New York, the Yass Prize Awardees and Finalists were announced.
READ: Keith Brooks’ latest piece in Forbes
Congratulations to Valiant Cross Academy on their Opening Day!
St. George x Be More Colorful Collaboration in Action
Black Pastors United for Education and Pastor Josh Stand for Educational Freedom
Yass Prize x Forbes Articles: Our 2022 and 2023 Yass Prize Winners
Stemuli Wins the AI for Good Innovation Factory Grand Finale 2024
The Wealth Gap Is Narrowing, but It’s Not Enough
Brian Curcio, the co-founder of Rapunzl which is a 2022 Yass Prize Finalist, explores the intersection of wealth, investing, and education in his latest contributor piece for Forbes. While investing is becoming more accessible, education must still come first.
Future of Education Podcast
Check out this thoughtful interview with innovation guru and author Michael Horn, who interviewed Anthony Brock, Co-Founder of Valiant Cross Academy, 2023 Yass Prize winner and Jeanne Allen, our CEO. Learn how giving education leaders freedom and flexibility to deliver personalized, holistic, and career-focused approach; their plans for spreading the benefits of their model; and how winning the Yass Prize will help.
The Yass Prize @ ASU+GSV 2024!
Latest News
- September 12, 2024
Primer Microschools is named 2024 Yass Prize Winner
- September 5, 2024
Watch the 2024 Yass Prize Semifinalist Announcement
- June 13, 2024
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— 2022 Yass Prize & STOP Awards —
Key Dates & Happenings
The Yass Foundation for Education advances the four core STOP principles: Sustainable, Transformational, Outstanding, and Permissionless education. Each year, the Foundation will reward dozens of organizations, building a growing network of innovative providers that
demonstrate these qualities in their commitment to new ideas, technologies, and approaches to learning that bring education into
the 21st century. The Foundation is powered by the Center for Education Reform (CER) in partnership with Forbes.
Education is one of the most fundamental pillars for democratizing opportunities for success that we have in our society.
It’s thanks to organizations like the Yass Prize that our children are going to have a better tomorrow.
We used the Yass Prize to launch a program called Skypod catalyst, which is essentially an accelerator to help other people start microschools.
We believe very much that microschools should be bottoms up, they come from the community. They're founded by educators who know their community really well. And they want to design a learning environment for the kids in that community.
In a state where alternative education is often overlooked, the Yass community helps us shine.
The Yass Prize has empowered our youth, families and community by bringing great visibility to our efforts.
Yass brought us together, creating opportunities to create an educational universe within which we can look at education differently…
we have to find academic experiences that represent neuro-divergent learners, kids who want to learn about gaming, who want to do stuff online, who dropped out of school.
When we follow the money, it’s ludicrous how this country is getting away with funding education.
The funding is not following children. We're trying to make better options for kids, for poor kids, middle class kids. Wealthy people have this choice, they opt out of their systems easily, why shouldn't all children have that choice?
Believe in your mission… Ground yourself… Never give up…
We have a tremendously transformative model that could stand for a little disruption.
The Yass experience has given us “permission” to do exactly that.
It might be the first time you’re speaking where everyone is actually listening and cares about what you’re doing.
I don’t think I’ve been in a room as supportive as the Yass Prize Semifinalist room in Miami.
Being a part of this experience has amplified the access we can give to our students in a way that nothing has, and the access is just critical.
The Yass Prize is almost like Burning Man for education reform.
Everyone knows that without great education, our nation suffers.
Great education is a vital link for students to become successful citizens.
The Yass Award is about celebrating and rewarding those who make students the priority.”
The Yass Prize is truly changing the landscape of education options across the nation,
and I couldn't be more grateful for what it's done for us, and helping us serve more students and families.