Celebrate the Power of Freedom in Education
Registration is now open for the Yass Prize 2024 Summit on September 12th, 2024 in New York City, New York!
Learn About All The Yass Prize and STOP Award Winners!
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!
SOAR Academy Featured
Hot off the press! SOAR Academy was featured by the education news organization, The 74 shining a spotlight on their impact in providing opportunities to help neurodiverse students and gain the confidence they need to succeed.The article also highlights the transformational effect of smaller settings on student behavior and success.
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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.
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.
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.
I’m dreaming bigger, bolder, and more bodacious [because of the Yass Prize].
It has helped me raise the ceiling on what’s possible.
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.
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.
Everyone knows that without great education, our nation suffers.
Great education is a vital link for students to become successful citizens.
I'm a Yass Prize finalist from last year.
And through that, we were able to open up our second campus in the city of Wichita.
There is absolutely zero downside to being a part of this network by submitting your application and what you will encounter is unlike any other grant.
It's actually mind blowing. I really see myself as an education entrepreneur, but this expanded me.
Being a part of the [Yass] family confirmed that what I'm doing is right,
going against the common core and focusing on what we know is important for kids really works, and having a network of people now that also agree was super huge.
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.
One of the missions of the Yass Prize and the Yass Prize movement is really surfacing best practices in innovation—
in innovators who are doing this type of transformational work, so that others can learn from it and replicate it, so that you can actually grow yourselves.
The Yass Prize process has created an awareness of the education freedom movement within churches and communities.
It's given us an opportunity to start critical discussions with our congregations, parents, community leaders and members, about the laws that govern education in Pennsylvania.