including public recognition from our Governor and partnership conversations with other education innovators from around the country.

The Yass Prize has empowered our youth, families and community by bringing great visibility to our efforts.

in innovators who are doing this type of transformational work, so that others can learn from it and replicate it, so that you can actually grow yourselves.

The Yass Prize is almost like Burning Man for education reform.

focusing on what we know is important for kids really works, and having a network of people now that also agree was super huge.

We don’t want you to rinse, wash, repeat. We want you to build and sustain.

And through that, we were able to open up our second campus in the city of Wichita.

We believe very much that microschools should be bottoms up, they come from the community. They're founded by educators who know their community really well. And they want to design a learning environment for the kids in that community.

and I couldn't be more grateful for what it's done for us, and helping us serve more students and families.

from all different demographics, all different states, all different service provider types that you can learn from.

I don’t think I’ve been in a room as supportive as the Yass Prize Semifinalist room in Miami.

It's given us an opportunity to start critical discussions with our congregations, parents, community leaders and members, about the laws that govern education in Pennsylvania.