Bart Patterson, President of Nevada State College, is the kind of man who looks at a deficit and sees opportunity. He has approached his work with an edupreneurial mindset, building programs that have made it the second-fastest-growing college in the country.

Cassandra Pawling, a culinary arts teacher at Desert Pines High School in Las Vegas, has noticed that it’s the stressors outside the classroom that have created internal conflict for her much more than the day-to-day stress of teaching.

Dockter-Rozar sees this upheaval as an opportunity for educators to chart a course toward meaningful change. “Education may be broken,” she says, “But the universe is providing an opening for us to rebuild. In many ways, this is a perfect opportunity.”