In the fall of 2006, a small group of public school educators and education reformers began a discussion about the current state of education, trends in education reform, and identifying shared core beliefs about teaching and learning. As the group began to articulate their vision for a 21st Century School to which they would feel confident sending their own children and grandchildren, the Bloomington Project School (BPS) was born. From the outset, the school’s goal was to interrupt the status quo of low achievement for children from historically marginalized and disenfranchised families of color and/or poverty.