Patrick Landry:
You know, you think about, like again, to talk math — the pyramid. If the fundamentals of the pyramid are not strong, then it doesn't matter what you do at the top. So schools will talk about tech programs, one-to-one laptops, Chromebooks, as like that's somehow the silver bullet of solving the math crisis that we have. That doesn't matter if your classrooms are chaotic, if your teachers are quitting midyear, if the students are moving to different schools every year. And so, it's like, how do you get back to those basics of what a good school looks like and stop worrying about the kind of sexy thing that now is a trend that everybody's gonna rush to? Smart boards in your classrooms? That doesn't matter if those pillars and those fundamentals and that base of the pyramid are not in a strong place. So, I think the one thing that we do well is focusing on those things. And once those feel in a good place, then we move up to those other things. I think that's a lesson that schools and districts could learn from a school like ours.