and I couldn't be more grateful for what it's done for us, and helping us serve more students and families.

When we originally applied, we simply provided supplemental support services to homeschooling families. Now, we are growing into an education network that provides community, coaching, and curriculum nationwide.

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.

The funding is not following children. We're trying to make better options for kids, for poor kids, middle class kids. Wealthy people have this choice, they opt out of their systems easily, why shouldn't all children have that choice?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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