Dashiell Young-Saver

While teaching at a Title I school on the southside of San Antonio, Dash threw out his traditional AP Stats curriculum and created lessons on topics that his students cared about: voter power, food deserts, the Spurs’s chance at winning the NBA title, online dating, and more. That year, in a region where 2% of students traditionally passed the AP Stats Exam, 42% of his students passed. During the pandemic, Dash put his lessons online. His website became Skew The Script – a nonprofit that provides free, relevant high school math lessons to over 20,000 teachers and 400,000 students nationwide. In addition to running Skew The Script, Dash still teaches part-time in San Antonio and writes math lessons for The New York Times. He holds a BA and MS in Data Science from Harvard and is a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree.