[MUSIC PLAYING] My experience with the network improvement community has been formative for all of my teaching. Over the last two years, it's made a huge impact on who I am as a teacher. All of the work that we're doing here I'm doing on the ground with my students every day. 

As teachers, we are also researchers, too, that we can use data from our students and refine that data. And that data can be surveys, it could be student work, it could be anything that helps us look at what's best for our kids. 

Our focus has been on chronic absenteeism. And we've actually seen improvement in that area in our schools based off of some of the work that we've been doing here and what we've been bringing back to the school. 

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What if we could abolish the phrase, "I'm not a math person," ensure every student has access to college, and support all young people in learning to read and loving to read? At the Center for Research on Equity and Innovation, we bring people together in networks guided by improvement science to learn together and make measurable progress on the issues we care about. Our goal is to disrupt predictable patterns of success and failure by empowering educators and students and helping good ideas spread. 

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