Jal Mehta is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His work focuses on educational practices and policies that promote deep and meaningful learning. He has also conducted extensive research on the education workforce. He is the author of "In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the American High School" (Harvard University Press, 2019) and "The Allure of Order: High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling" (Oxford University Press, 2013). "The Learning Professional" recently interviewed Mehta about how the COVID-19 pandemic is changing teaching and learning and how to seize opportunities for improving schools moving forward. The conversation has been condensed and edited for this article.