A Playbook for Public School Districts to Start Microschools

And what is inspiring is that you see once people wrap their mind around that this is a possibility, then you see that like innovation, light bulb go off and it's how can I be creative with the space and the staffing that I have? I think about Canyon City out of Colorado. So they have a micro school and it's experiential learning and they take the young people on various trips across the country and even globally. And their staffing model is so that the on their block schedule. But if there's an English teacher that one of that English teacher section is with the micro school. So it's not the hiring of an additional person, it's just being creative and flexible within the confines that you already have. And so that's a perfect example of like how do we address, you know, space operations and staffing? What do you have? How can you be flexible? I think it goes back to the point we talked about earlier of just like being confined, of thinking like this is the way that we've always solved this problem, this is the way we're going to continue to solve this problem. But it's like, what if you kind of flip things on your their head. I've seen other spaces switch to a four day school model to accommodate a micro school. And what are, what are those kids going to be doing on that fourth day? I mean on that fifth day? And how do you staff for that? To Deb's point, you're respecting those educators as indeed educators and professionals and pulling them into the conversation. There are tons of great examples all across the country of people that are navigating unions and navigating staffing models and schedules and sometimes again, people just don't know what's out there. And so diving into the playbook, what I do appreciate is that we highlight so many examples that are, that you can still reach out to right now if you're not clear or if there's a hurdle that you can't quite cross.