Growing up in rural America, we passed silos on our way to school filled with silage, a combination of whole maize plants, beets, grass, and alfalfa. While the ingredients varied from silo to silo, these products made a healthy and sustainable feed for livestock when nutrition was scarce. Indeed, they were the lifeblood of farms during winter. As educators today in a suburban high school on New York’s Long Island, we don’t see too many silos on our way to work, but we see them in the prevailing structure of public education: silos of disconnected departments, curricula, and personnel, each filled with committed, thoughtful, hardworking educators dedicated to student learning, but not often working together in the same space with the same vision. This silo