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

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

It’s thanks to organizations like the Yass Prize that our children are going to have a better tomorrow.

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

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

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.

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.

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'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.

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