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

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

It has helped me raise the ceiling on what’s possible.

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

The Yass experience has given us “permission” to do exactly that.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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