her co-author, rebecca winthrop, will be sitting next to jenny.ebecca is a senior fellow at brookings and the director for universal education. next, we will have sonja santaelises, the ceo of baltimore city public schools for almost a decade now at this point. and we have jenee henry wood, the chief learning officer at transcend. then, we will have nat malkus, senior fellow at the american institute -- excuse me, american enterprise institute. nat has been doing yeoman's work in collecting data on student absences and analyzing that data. i think we will see some of that data in a few minutes. a couple of quick housekeeping notes before handed off to jenny. first, after we hear from the panelists, we will have a good 15 to 20 minutes of audience q&a. if you are here, we will have microphones. if you are watching us live, feel free to either email your questions to events @brookings .edu. we will be checking that email account. or on x using #disengagementgap. i guess if you are here, you could also tweet us using the hashtag, if we have introvert

jenny's co-author, rebecca winthrop will be next to her. rebecca is a senior fellow here at brookings and the director of universal education. next to rebecca we'll have sonia brookins santelises, who has been the c.e.o. of baltimore city public schools for almost a take now at this point. and we have jenee henrywood, a author herself of a recent book how communities can design thriving learning environments. we'll have nat mall cuss, senior fellow -- nat malkus at the american enterprise institute down the street. he's been doing yeoman's work in creating data on student absences and analyzing that data. we'll see some of that data in a few minutes. a couple of quick housekeeping notes before i hand off to jenny. first, after we hear from the panelists we'll have a good 15 to 20 minutes of audience "q&a." if you are here we'll have microphones around. if you are not but watching us live, please feel free to either email your questions to events @brookings.edu. we'll be checking that email account. or on x using hash tag -- tagovailoa dishe

her co-author rebecca winthrop, she is a senior fellow here at brookings. then we have sonia, who has been the ceo of baltimore city public schools for almost a decade at this point. we have the chief earning officer at transcend and the author herself of a recent book on how communities can design thriving learning environments. and then we have net malka's. he's been doing yeoman's work in collecting data on student absences and analyzing the data. i think we will see some of the data in a few minutes. some quick housekeeping notes before handed off. first, after we hear from panelists, i think we will have a good 15 to 20 minutes of audience q&a. if you are here we will have microphones around, and if you are not here, feel free to email your questions and we will check the email account or on x. if you are here, you can also tweet us. if we have introverts in the room. [laughter] right after the panel we will have a reception and there will be copies of jenny and rebecca's book available and i'm sure they will be happy to sign that copy. thank you for c