Impact Award
The Impact Award recognizes individuals who have done outstanding work to improve learning opportunities at a national or global level. Impact Award recipients have been a major force for innovation in education. These are trailblazers whose work motivates and engages others, and has an impact for years to come.
Award Details
- Are education innovators on a national or global level.
- Focus on closing opportunity gaps to create a more equitable education system.
- Use and champion the others’ use of the ISTE+ASCD Transformational Learning Principles to elevate meaningful and impactful learning, teaching and leading.
- Engraved plaque acknowledging the recipient’s outstanding achievement.
$500 cash prize. - A one-year ISTE+ASCD Print Enhanced membership ($129 value).
- Recognition at the co-located ISTELive 26 + ASCD Annual Conference 26, and on the ISTE+ASCD website.
- One hotel room for three nights to attend ISTELive 26 + ASCD Annual 26.
- Complimentary registration for ISTELive 26 + ASCD Annual 26 ($895 value).
- Opportunities to contribute such as presenting a webinar, participating in a podcast, or highlighted in an article.
Recent Recipients
Jean-Claude Brizard
Jean-Claude Brizard leads Digital Promise Global, advancing equitable education worldwide.
Andreas Schleicher
Andreas Schleicher leads education policy at the OECD, advising global leaders on improving education equity and quality.
Monique M. Chism, Ph.D.
Dr. Monique Chism oversees educational strategy at the Smithsonian.
Jay McTighe
Jay McTighe is an author and consultant best known for Understanding by Design®.
Past Winners
Kara Bobroff
Kara Bobroff is a Diné and Lakota educator and leader who serves Indigenous youth and communities.
Tom Vander Ark
Tom Vander Ark is CEO of Getting Smart where he advises schools, foundations and learning organizations on the path forward.
Yong Zhao
Yong Zhao, Ph.D., is a foundation distinguished professor in the School of Education at the University of Kansas.