Yass Prize 2022 Semifinalists

Forbes LiFT Yass Prize

Dear LiFT community,  We are very excited to share with you some excellent news. Our company is a semifinalist for “The Yass Prize for Sustainable, Transformational, Outstanding and Permissionless Education (STOP).”      The award highlights education providers that strive to offer Sustainable, Transformational, Outstanding, and Permissionless (STOP) education.   In conjunction with the $1 million Yass Prize,…

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Vermont Agency of Education

Vermont Agency of Education AOE

The Agency of Education implements state and federal laws, policies, and regulations to ensure all Vermont learners have equitable access to high-quality learning opportunities. The Agency accomplishes this mission through the provision of its leadership, support, and oversight of Vermont’s public education system. Proficiency-Based Learning is a key component of flexible and personalized pathways set…

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Next Generation Learning Challenges supports the educators who are reimagining public education. NGLC helps them apply what we now know about learning to school design. They help educators live next gen learning professionally, and work with them to generate environments in which next gen learning can flourish. With customized guidance and deep learning experiences for…

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KnowledgeWorks

With 20 years of experience as a leader in strategic foresight and education transformation, the passionate KnowledgeWorks team partners with K-12 educators, policymakers and education stakeholders to prepare each child for success through personalized learning. By looking ahead to the future of learning and work, transforming policy and growing educator impact, the KnowledgeWorks team helps…

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Students at the Center

Students at the Center helps educators to understand and make use of current research on student-centered approaches to teaching and learning. Their goal is that each student – with a special focus on students who identify as Black or Brown, have learning differences, are English Language Learners, have recently immigrated or are low-income – have…

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New Hampshire Learning Initiative

They want to move your school forward. As educators themselves, the leaders of New Hampshire Learning Initiative saw a need to assist schools in deepening learning practices to improve education. NHLI has a strong mission: move schools forward through meaningful educational change, and provide pathways to success in college, career, and life for all students.

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Education Reimagined

Education Reimagined, an initiative of Convergence, arose out of an 18-month dialogue to re-imagine education among 28 ideologically diverse practitioners and leaders. This group of innovators emerged with “A Transformational Vision for Education in the US” which sets out the fundamental transformation of the current school-centered education system to one that is learner-centered. With the vision…

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Aurora Institute

Aurora Institute is a nonprofit organization with the mission to catalyze the transformation of K-12 education policy and practice to advance powerful, personalized, student-centered experiences through competency-based, blended and online learning. Aurora Institute engages in policy advocacy, publishes quality standards and catalyzes new opportunities for anytime, anywhere personalized learning. Aurora Institute’s 2022 Federal Policy Priorities…

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CompetencyWorks

A project of the Aurora Institute, CompetencyWorks is a knowledge-building hub and online resource dedicated to providing information about K-12 competency-based education. Drawing on lessons learned by innovators and early adopters, CompetencyWorks shares original research, knowledge and a variety of perspectives through an informative blog with practitioner knowledge, policy advancements, papers on emerging issues and a wiki…

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