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.

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

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

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

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.

Not only because of the capital, but because of the knowledge that comes by communing with the diverse group of people as opposed to everybody that thinks the exact same way that you might think.

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

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.

I'm in the process of going through the construction of a 20,000 square foot $11.5 million dollar building dedicated to career and technical education for the students in the Philadelphia region.