July 11, 2012 – In this guest column on Tom Vander Ark’s Vander Ark on Innovation blog, Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel emphasize seven priorities educational technology innovators should consider when designing digital learning tools. By consulting excellent teachers, innovators can create tools that help excellent teachers reach far more students and lead peers, accelerating innovation’s transformative potential –and getting the learning results we need.
September 17, 2012 - In this post for Education Next, Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel focus on the new District Race to the Top criteria requiring all applicants to meet an "Absolute Priority" for learning personalization that includes "expand[ing] student access...
August 16, 2012 - Public Impact's Bryan Hassel teams up with Celine Coggins of Teach Plus in this Commentary for Education Week. They argue that school reform efforts that do not expand the impact—and number—of excellent teachers are bound to fall short. Schools must...
July 30, 2012 - In this Education Next post, Bryan Hassel and Emily Ayscue Hassel explain the findings of Public Impact’s recent financial analyses aimed at determining how much more schools could pay teachers—within budget—just by putting excellent teachers in charge...