Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Mark Angel, Co-Founder and CEO at Amira Learning Inc.; Dacia Toll, Co-CEO at Coursemojo; Jasmine Walker, Director at The Center for Outcomes Based Contracting; McKenzie Snow, Director at Iowa Department of Education; and Christina Grant, Executive Director at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University.

The speakers explored what happened when districts stopped buying products and started building outcome-driven partnerships. They discussed a new contracting model where funding followed impact, accountability was shared, and student learning sat at the center of every decision. Instead of transactional, à la carte purchasing, these models tied a meaningful portion of funding to student outcomes and made districts and providers jointly responsible for results, implementation, and continuous improvement.

The session unpacked what became possible when accountability was shared. Panelists examined how outcome-aligned partnerships drove stronger implementation fidelity, helped ensure students received the right dosage of support, and delivered higher levels of student engagement than traditional procurement approaches. They also explored how these models supported fiscal transparency, focused resources on students with the greatest needs, and allowed systems to course-correct in real time. The conversation probed whether moving from an à la carte mindset to fully integrated, outcome-aligned partnerships was essential to sustaining measurable change in K–12, and what it took to make these models work at scale.