- Dr. Cheng

Dr. Cheng: I think I speak for Dr. McGlawn and myself when I say we wanna take on that whole system. That's what we love to do. We wanna get in there, we wanna find those levers. The system doesn't know. The system doesn't have the wisdom. The people in the system have the wisdom, as Aasha said. Bringing that up to our conversations with leadership, with the data that we've collected, with the strong, rich, deep, amazing stories that are collected by Teacher Truth is a start to bring up what we're learning and put it back into the system with folks who are doing the work with the bright spots, with the champions who are doing the work at the leadership level. The data taught us that putting resources into the system isn't the thing. Putting resources into sustaining people and practices is what is a next step that hasn't really been part of the conversation yet. You can put all the resources out there, but even people with resources are being pushed away from actually doing the work by all of those people that were exerting pressure in the system.