As spring rushes quickly towards summer, students across the country are trying to figure out what to do with summer months that are likely to be a bit freer than last year, but far from normal. To meet students’ needs, schools are in the process of designing summer opportunities to enrich student learning and to, if we’re being honest, fill in potholes that COVID school has left in their education. This is leaving a lot of people involved in K12 education wondering how they’re going to pull off new programs on very tight timelines, which leads us to think about how innovation functions in the American public education system. So today, we think about the what, when, and how of schools re-inventing themselves as we ask: how do individual schools and entire school systems innovate to meet the ever-evolving needs of their students?