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100Kin10 Initiative

January 18, 2012 - Public Impact® has been named a 100Kin10 partner, agreeing to help extend the reach of excellent STEM educators. The national 100Kin10 movement aims to recruit, prepare, and retain 100,000 science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers...

How Digital Learning Will Benefit Low-Income Students

December 28, 2011 - As Tom Vander Ark suggests in this Huffington Post article, the top benefit of digital learning for low-income students will be to give every student access to great teachers in every subject. He cites Public Impact®’s initiative and strategies for...

Brief Models for Extending the Reach of Excellent Teachers

December 14, 2011 - Public Impact® releases school designs that put top teachers in charge of every child’s learning. These models use job redesign, technology, or both to help excellent teachers reach more students. Learn more here.

Public Impact®® Seeks Five Major Sites

December 14, 2011 - Public Impact® is seeking sites to create prototypes and scale new school models that put excellent teachers in charge of far more students’ learning, within budget.  Read the announcement.  Learn what we’re looking for in sites.

Emily Ayscue Hassel Named an Aspen Teacher Leader Fellow

November 21, 2011 - Public Impact®'s co-director Emily Ayscue Hassel is named one of 21 teacher leaders in the inaugural class of the Aspen Teacher Leader Fellows program. This fellowship "is designed to cultivate and support a cohort of teacher leaders – including...

Excellent Teachers & Digital Learning – Best Together

November 17, 2011 - Digital instruction paired with excellent teachers has enormous potential to fuel student learning. Though some observers pit technology against teachers, this report by co-directors Bryan C. Hassel and Emily Ayscue Hassel proposes that “digital...

Teacher Quality – What’s Next for the U.S.?

September 28, 2011 - Bryan Hassel spoke at the 2011 PIE Network Summit: Taking Stock on Teacher Quality Reforms: What's been accomplished in 2011? What's next? When asked about the biggest gains made over the past five years,  Hassel said there has been a huge...