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Join Justin Reich, Jal Mehta, and Neema Avashia for the release of a new report about pandemic schooling: Healing, Community, and Humanity: How Students and Teachers Want to Reinvent Schools After the Pandemic (https://edarxiv.org/nd52b/) Understanding the experiences of students and teachers during pandemic schooling is vital to educational recovery and building back better. In the spring of 2021, we conducted three research exercises: 1) we invited 200 teachers to interview their students about the past year and share their findings, 2) we interviewed 50 classroom teachers, and 3) we conducted ten multistakeholder design charrettes with students, teachers, school leaders, and family members to begin planning for the 2021-2022 recovery year. Together our findings form a "view from the ground" during pandemic schooling. The primary themes in our interviews, focus groups, and design charrettes were an emphasis on healing, community, and humane reinvention. Students and teachers told us that the best things about the pandemic year were when it created opportunities to slow down and build real relationships between teachers and students and their families and when students were given more independence to be in charge of their learning, their bodies, and their development. When we asked them about what problems they hoped policymakers would address about schooling next year, students and teachers talked less about COVID and more about long-standing problems with schools: buildings and classrooms that are uncomfortable to learn in, overstuffed curriculum that limited opportunities for human connection and interest-based exploration, overzealous policing of bodies and behavior, early start times that are out of sync with adolescent biology, and more.