The fire burned for four straight days, scorching thousands of acres in the foothills north of Boise. Hundreds of homes were evacuated. Flooding and mudslides threatened the city in the aftermath of the blaze. This year marks 25 years since the Eighth Street Fire, yet key lessons learned during that time inform how wildfires are fought and planned for even today. That fire forced a reckoning. It was a transformative event. For the past year and half, we have been living through another transformative event — one that will surely impact our lives for the next quarter-century and beyond. The effects of the COVID-19 crisis have moved slowly at times and struck suddenly at others. Exactly what life will look like on the other side of the pandemic remains uncertain, but the reality is there is no going “back to normal.” We will see lasting changes in how we manage our health, do work and approach education. Indeed, the entire education sector is facing one of its most significant tests