The second in two parts of the 2022 Yass Prize Awardees’ visit on in PIazza. The Phoenix Effect: Four individuals whose own life circumstances and challenges they overcame led them to create pathways to opportunity for others share their experiences.  Learn more about the Yass Prize and the 2022 awardee educators at yassprize.org.

Leaders from across the country representing the brightest ideas in education innovation and entrepreneurship join Jeanne Allen ‘in Piazza,’ tackling how hi-tech solutions are driving students’ new, stronger financial literacy, who’s doing microschooling right, and how districts in the traditional system are innovating to lead in an unprecedented educational environment. 

Learn more about the 2022 Yass Prize and the awardee schools and leaders at yassprize.org. 

A talented thought leader, and former six term state legislator in the Georgia House of Representatives who made history at 23 in being the youngest to serve Cobb county, Alisha Thomas Searcy talks about her experience running for the state’s top education post, the challenge of being a Democrat who holds positions not embraced by the establishment and how the arts influenced her life, then and now.

Considered the Godmother of Silicon Valley, Esther Wojcicki is an award winning and recognized educator and a champion of empowering students and raising generations (including one’s own kids) to become independent, creative, self-sufficient and contributing members of society. She unpacks all that and more in this episode of In Piazza. Learn more about her at moonshotsedu.com and check out her book How to Raise Successful People. Tune in now!

Guests Michael Horn and Phyllis Lockett join the 2022 Yass Prize Educator Cohort to talk about Impact and Innovation as part of the participants' accelerator programming. Learn more at yassprize.org

Annie Duke, author of Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, and a world famous poker player is the co-founder of the Alliance for Decision Education. She joins in Piazza to discuss her book and the experiences and decisions that have shaped her, including her time as a games champion, and how it might be time to turn convention on its head when it comes to how we make decisions.

Welcome back to in Piazza after a summer long break! In this engaging conversation, Michigan charter school leader Dan Quisenberry and the attorney suing the Biden Administration talk about their efforts to protect parents’ rights to choose a charter school for their child.

We’re back in Piazza this September 2022 with an intensive look at the challenges charter schools have been facing since the spring when opponents of charter schools were able to get the White House on board in their efforts to put charter schools out of business. Tune in now!

We're continuing our "Best Of" series with Green Bay Packers fan and 54th Speaker of the U.S. House, Paul Ryan. He joins Jeanne and Michael in Piazza to talk about his work to combat poverty and solutions for education and work, his founding the American Idea Foundation to improve public policy and the nation’s communities, his experience and advice for those aspiring to public service, and much more.

In this episode of our "Best Of" series, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush joins InPiazza as he shares his thoughts on a wide range of topics with Jeanne and Michael — from COVID-19’s impact on schools and getting America back to work, to how he got started, his journey and the state of free speech today.