Bryan C. Hassel is an expert on education issues, co-president of Public Impact a national education policy and management consulting firm based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and co-founder of the national Opportunity Culture initiative with Emily Ayscue Hassel.
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which he attended as a Morehead Scholar.
Dr. Hassel co-leads strategy and national outreach for the Opportunity Culture initiative, which redesigns schools to reach more students with excellent teaching teams, boost student learning growth and pay educators more, funded within schools’ regular budgets.
The initiative currently serves schools in 12 states and is releasing a low-cost school redesign portal with design tools, educator professional certificates in design, and school certification based on factors correlated with student learning growth over the last decade.
In addition, Dr. Hassel has written extensively on charter school excellence and co-designed early national charter authorizing standards, encouraging growth of the best networks and reduction of ineffective schools.