Head of Schools and Distribution at Outschool

Amy Yamner Jenkins returns to America SCORES Bay Area as a new board member. In 2001, Amy helped launch SCORES with Executive Director Colin Schmidt as one of the organization’s first two hires. Before becoming the Head of Schools and Distribution at Outschool, Amy served as COO and a Managing Partner at Education Elements, a company focused on helping districts to solve some of their biggest challenges, including integrating technology into meaningful, student-centered instruction. As an undergraduate at Dartmouth, Amy was awakened to the vast inequities and inequalities in school systems in the US through an eye-opening class that would change her path. Though she had intended to go to law school, she joined Teach for America as a middle school teacher in Oakland. “I saw firsthand the challenges of meeting the needs of every student,” Amy says. “It had a visceral impact on me.” 

After leaving SCORES, Amy earned an MBA at Harvard Business School. She worked at NewSchools Venture Fund and as a consultant for the Monitor Group before joining Education Elements in 2012. As SCORES integrates technology into its growth, Amy sees opportunities. “How can technology be a lever toward a set of goals we have for teaching and learning?” she asks. 

Amy has two young daughters and coaches both of their soccer teams. She loves hiking and tackling ambitious and efficient health challenges, like 100 kettle swings and 100 sit-ups a day. Her abs are stronger than yours.