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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

It's actually mind blowing. I really see myself as an education entrepreneur, but this expanded me.

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

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