We’ve been blindsided by the pandemic. Yet we haven’t. This wave has revealed some deep flaws and cracks in our culture and our institutions. We’ve been stumbling along with these for some time, maybe just because they were familiar. That stumbling includes how we see learning and how we see leadership. The dislocation of education from big-box schools creates a space for us to re-build better. Let’s embrace the possibility that we can take technology, dislocation, learning research and our frustration with the clear inadequacies of the current system and build a better place to learn. I don’t think that will happen well if we don’t include, as equals, everyone, in the way forward, especially our learners of every age. If we can start by creating that connective tissue, we can do this right.