Local Partners

Microschools don’t thrive in isolation. They grow stronger when local organizations lean in and help build something lasting.

The National Microschooling Center partners with community-rooted organizations to create vibrant, resilient ecosystems where microschools can launch, grow, and endure. Together, we turn curiosity into capacity and interest into action.

Host the Center for a Microschooling 101 event

This introductory session can be hosted in person or virtually and is designed to spark curiosity, build shared understanding, and grow early momentum around microschooling in your community. It’s an ideal starting point for pre-launch and currently operating founders, as well as families, community members, and local leaders who want to learn what microschooling really is and what it can look like in practice. Think of it as the on-ramp: accessible, energizing, and built to start meaningful conversations that turn interest into action.

Host the Center for a Full Day Workshop

We regularly host full-day, intensive microschool trainings in partnership with local organizations across the country. These sessions begin with the big picture of microschooling and steadily sharpen into practical, actionable guidance as the day unfolds. Designed for prospective, pre-launch, and currently operating microschool founders, these trainings offer a deep dive into what it really takes to design, launch, and sustain a microschool, grounded in real-world experience and field-tested insight.

Bring the Conversation to Your Community

The Center regularly speaks and keynotes at conferences, expos, and gatherings hosted by local and national organizations, sharing insights on a wide range of microschooling topics. We welcome invitations to join your event and love collaborating with partners who want to spark thoughtful conversation, deepen understanding, and move microschooling forward in their communities.

Host the Center for Small Group Trainings

The Center offers small-group trainings in person and virtually, designed for microschool communities that want to go deeper together. If your organization supports a collective of local microschools, we can partner with you to deliver high-impact, practice-driven trainings for your community. Sessions can draw from our existing training offerings or be custom-built to align with your organization’s goals, local context, and the real needs of the microschools you serve, ensuring the learning is relevant, actionable, and immediately useful.

Center Supported Community Building

The Center is here to help you build momentum and connection across your community through in-person and virtual gatherings. We support local events by showing up, sharing ready-to-use materials, and brainstorming alongside our partners to design gatherings that actually serve your community. From informal meetups to more structured conversations, we help create spaces that strengthen relationships, spark collaboration, and grow a vibrant local microschool ecosystem.

Let's build something together.

Dive into the opportunities above, then connect with Ashley Soifer, the Center’s Chief Innovation Officer, at ashley@microschoolingcenter.org to talk through real, meaningful ways to partner. If you’re ready to move from interest to action, we’re ready too.

What does it mean to be a local partner?

Local partners are organizations that work alongside the Center to grow microschooling in their community. That community might be a state, a city, or a specific region. Local partners help bring awareness, learning opportunities, and connection to the people they serve, whether that’s families, founders, educators, or community leaders. For example, we’ve partnered with organizations like local Chambers of Commerce to introduce microschooling to their members and help spark new possibilities at the community level.
What do local partners do?

Local partners collaborate with the Center to bring microschooling to life in their community. They help organize and host strategic microschooling events like the ones listed above and take the lead on local outreach, including marketing and registration. Beyond events, local partners can stay engaged in ways that make sense for them, from sharing Center resources and co-hosting conversations to participating in strategic planning sessions with the Center team. The level of involvement is flexible and shaped by each partner’s goals and capacity.
What are some examples of local partners?

Local partners take many forms, and each partnership is shaped by the needs of the community.

The Center has partnered with Embark New Schools Mississippi to bring multiple microschooling workshops to the state, both in person and virtually. Our work has included advising on their microschool microgrant process, connecting microschools to relevant resources, and providing both individual and group coaching to the microschools they support.

In Indiana, the Center partnered with EdChoice and The Mind Trust to design and support a microgrant program for newly launching microschools. This partnership also included broader ecosystem-building efforts such as dedicated events, targeted trainings, and ongoing guidance for founders.

We’ve also partnered with Wichita Learning Lab to host a one-day intensive training for the microschools in their community.

Interested in learning more about what a local partnership could look like in your community? Reach out to Ashley Soifer to schedule a local partnership conversation.
What do local partners receive?

Local partners gain a true planning partner in the Center. Our team works alongside you to strategically map microschool growth in your area, helping you think through outreach, ecosystem-building, and next steps that fit your local context. Partners also receive access to quarterly partner calls, creating space to learn from other communities doing this work, and a quarterly partner update with insights, resources, and opportunities from across the microschooling field.

The National Microschooling Center conducted four public information sessions and early-phase training sessions for current and prospective microschool leaders in [state], and for members of our community to help us build awareness and understanding about microschooling...Additionally, the work of the National Microschooling Center, including their published articles and resources, presentations and videos, have helped our team to better understand microschooling, its powerful potential as an educational options for [state] families, and important aspects of their operations and structure, which we are now applying to our [local partner organization] movement-building work.

Local Partner

Local Partners

What partnership with the Center looks like

Host the Center for a Microschooling 101 event

Host the Center for a Full Day Workshop

Bring the Conversation to Your Community

Host the Center for Small Group Trainings

Center Supported Community Building

Let's build something together.

What does it mean to be a local partner?

What do local partners do?

What are some examples of local partners?

What do local partners receive?

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