The VillageSpace online conversation continues to be a forum where our hopes, ideas, and concerns pertaining to public schools in communities across America are shared. Our goal is to encourage everyday people to use their personal and professional skills, access, and expertise to build partnerships and new communities that respond to local school needs. The crisis state of schools all over the country calls for strong leadership, sharing of roles and responsibilities, and unusual levels of commitment and persistence by persons and organizations from all walks of life. Moving forward will require the efforts and inputs of the whole village to effectively navigate the logistical, organizational, political, and cultural realities and obstacles ahead. We hope you choose to join us on this path toward public school transformation as we build bridges across lines of difference and traditional boundaries.