The Next Generation
Deserves a Better
Kind of School –
So We Built It From
The Ground Up
We believe education should have two purposes—to instill a lifelong love of learning and to provide kids the skills to thrive in the future. When we built Prisma, we asked: If we started from scratch, focused on those two goals, what might school look like?
Watch our videos about what makes Prisma unique and our top two goals.
Today, Prisma looks like the best ideas in innovative education crossed with the joy and flexibility of homeschooling. Prisma looks like harnessing technology—not only to personalize the curriculum but to connect kids with the best educators worldwide. Prisma looks like a global community of families doing school differently.
A Word From Our CEO
Cultivating Learners to be Builders & Doers
Why project-based learning? Of course, projects are fun, creative, and hands-on. But our projects go deeper than a diorama. At Prisma, academic learning happens through each project, asking kids to demonstrate what they know in a tangible way at every step. No wonder meta-analysis of 66 studies shows project-based learning improves student outcomes.
But the biggest reason we do project-based learning isn’t fun or academics. It’s because projects train kids to think like highly effective people: the builders and doers who change our world for the better.
Prisma learners practice the skills innovators use every day, learning to take an idea from seed to final product and revise based on critical feedback. They master modern tools of creation: editing videos, engineering 3D models, coding apps, and launching businesses.
Most importantly, they develop a rare asset: agency. Prisma learners are empowered, knowing they can create real things that matter because of the years of practice we’ve given them doing just that.
A Word From Our CEO
Kristen Shroff – CEO, Curriculum Guru, Ice Cream Lover, Mom
The Prisma Powers
Four Skills, Endless Potential
& Follow Through
Prisma Power #1
Applied Curiosity
How We Build It
- Opportunities to follow interests within themes and beyond
- Projects that require real research: finding credible sources, evaluating conflicting information, and synthesizing it into original work that defends a claim
- A curriculum built around thorny questions, real-world dilemmas, and scenarios complex enough to reward genuine critical thinking
Kids have tons of natural curiosity, but they need to be taught how to harness it effectively. We help learners develop the skills to both ask great questions and find the answers.
Prisma Power #2
Innovator’s Mindset
How We Build It
- Projects structured around the full creative cycle
- Exposure to multiple creative processes from entrepreneurship to engineering and art—through themes that make them tangible
- A workflow where feedback and revision are built in—coaches comment on work, and learners respond and improve
Creativity is a process that can be taught—and mastered. We train learners to brainstorm possibilities, build prototypes, and refine their work until it's genuinely excellent.
Prisma Power #3
Communication & Collaboration
How We Build It
- Workshops with team challenges, simulations, and debates where success requires collaboration
- Writing practice across real formats from professional emails to journalism to essays, for audiences beyond just a teacher
- Expo Day presentations where learners share work they genuinely care about and build confidence in their authentic voice
Work is increasingly global, team-based, and project-driven. Yet most schools still prioritize individual worksheets for an audience of one. We develop communicators who can persuade, debate, and build alongside a team.
Prisma Power #4
Initiative & Follow Through
How We Build It
- Coaches who meet each learner where they are, gradually building independence
- 1:1 coaching focused on goal-setting, time management, and project management skills adults wish someone had taught them
- Reflection activities that build self-awareness and help learners assess their strengths, challenges, and growth throughout each project
Great ideas are cheap; execution is everything. We develop learners who can take ownership of complex goals and see them through, without waiting for someone to hand them a roadmap.
The Value of Real-World Skills
Design Thinking
Entrepreneurship
Data Analysis
Financial Literacy
Digital Literacy
Social-Emotional Learning
At most schools, these skills are afterthoughts. In Prisma’s themes, they’re woven into rigorous academics: think biology through designing a medical device, economics through building a business budget. While covering standard school subjects, Prisma learners pull ahead with skills peers won’t develop until their first job.
We can’t wait to meet you.
Whether you have questions unique to your child or family—or just want to dive deeper into program designs, sample schedules, and financial aid.