Friday Feature: Masterpiece Academy

Colleen Hroncich

Like many education entrepreneurs, Hannah Holguin had a two‐​pronged motivation for creating her microschool, Masterpiece Academy. A public school teacher for nine years, she was realizing that the system wasn’t serving all students as well as it could. At the same time, her child was becoming school‐​aged. “I felt there was something else I needed to do with my passion for kids, my passion for education, my credentials from college,” she recalls. “And so I started the journey to figure it out.