We often use a construction analogy when creating understanding around the need for a reset. It goes something like this. Let’s say you are in the process of building your dream home – the blueprints are amazing, there’s not another one like it – and you drive up to the work site to assess the work that’s going. You look and you see a crack in the foundation. Immediately, you instruct the crew to stop work, don’t swing another hammer or drive another nail until the crack in the foundation has been corrected. This is the way we look at education. There is a crack in the foundation that needs fixing. To continue to build on something that is off center (not student focused, student driven) is tocontinue to produce errant outcomes. Because the address of the issue has gone untended for so long, we are left with the need to do much, and simultaneously, but all the efforts – whether policies, processes, or practices – leaning toward the student (and their families) and toward healing.