Deadline: 18 April 2024
The Yass Prize for Sustainable, Transformational, Outstanding and Permissionless education, now in its fourth year, is a rapidly growing effort to find, reward, celebrate and expand best-in-class education organizations from every sector, in every state, and to create unprecedented partnerships that accelerate impact with the speed and urgency the students deserve.
The Yass Prize and STOP Awards Initiative is accelerating education opportunity for students and freedom for parents and teachers all over the country.
What Does it Mean to STOP for Education?
- The most effective education environments stem from state policies that give educators wide latitude to develop and support student needs. These four core principles have the power to guide policy change and drive positive outcomes for every child.
- Sustainable
- Sustainability is the core pillar that holds up the rest, meaning a provider is able to exist without continual philanthropy, instead utilizing public dollars that fund entities where students are learning, or taking significant and impressive actions on the local, state, or national level for funds to follow students. Education organizations can also be sustainable by creating innovative and sustainable revenue streams (like sales of products or services and/or partnering with others to support students) so that they do not have to rely on philanthropy.
- Transformational
- What does it take to truly transform learning for students? There’s a wealth of new approaches, tools, and understanding about what works since the current education system was created, enabling them to better serve students in highly individualized, responsive, and personalized ways. Schools and providers are transformational when they utilize these 21st century assets to modify the learning environment and/or use a tried-and-true approach more rigorously.
- Outstanding
- Outstanding education providers demonstrate their success, first and foremost, through the demand of the students and families they serve and the day-to-day outcomes shown through retention, test scores, activities, and awards. But the ultimate measure of success is whether students are persistent, move on to the next grade or school, and enter productive careers or higher education pathways.
- Permissionless
- Education that is free to exist and thrive without depending on regulatory bodies is permissionless. It means the ability to make decisions about what you do, and how you do it – whether you’re a founder, teacher, parent, or student – without asking for permission. Providers that are true to the concept of permissionless education boldly execute on what they know to be right, rather than waiting for a green light from a person or entity.
- Sustainable
- Permissionless education environments stem from state policies that give their educators wide latitude to develop and support student needs, which in turn make them sustainable.
For more information, visit Yass Foundation for Education.
