To adequately address school-based factors and realistically confront societal factors, schools should take an organizing approach to school change. That is, rather than thinking about a top-down solution led by administrators, schools need to think about building power within the school community and across constituencies.

We have to be willing to rethink what learning requires of students and educators in a world reshaped by COVID.

A school can only transform culture and climate if the adults in the building respect each other and look out for each other.