Big Picture Learning's Upstream Collaborative is a professional learning community of continuation high schools, community day schools, and other alternative schools throughout California and Washington State. School leaders in the collaborative receive coaching, professional development, and practical support to develop learner-centered, culturally responsive approaches to teaching and learning at their sites. The "Report and Recommendations of the California Advisory Task Force on Alternative Schools" encourages alternative schools to develop a learner-centered approach to teaching and learning that includes out-of-school learning opportunities (John W. Gardner Center, 2020). In this case profile, Big Picture Learning's Regional Director Javier Guzman poses the question: What will it take to reimagine great alternative schools that help youth develop their full academic and social potential? He addresses this question through the lens of one young man and his experience at a California continuation high school. [For the task force report, see ED608277. The Profiles in California Alternative Education series is a project of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University in support of the California Learning Collaborative on Alternative Education.]