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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.