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 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.

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

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.

we have to find academic experiences that represent neuro-divergent learners, kids who want to learn about gaming, who want to do stuff online, who dropped out of school.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.