So I have been within and alongside the schools for two decades, so serving as a school based SLP, and then over time, I was bestowed opportunities to do leadership, which I declined on many occasions, but finally agreed to it. So I've been a district lead. And then in the state of Texas, which is where I'm from, we're divided into 20 regions, and I worked at region 13, overseeing the 60 to 70 Central School districts in the state of Texas. Um, and I will say the one thing that I've realized I'm a very big, warm, feely person. My eyeballs get wet every single day. I feel really big. And so whenever I'm serving my students and my speech language pathologist, I think people feel safe in terms of telling me how they feel. And so whenever I was lead, that was like in the early 2010s. I started hearing like, hey, Phuong, I'm getting overwhelmed. I'm not getting home until seven or eight. And what I realized is being a school based SLP, looks very differently than being in a leadership position where you have to adhere to compliance and funding but then still keep your people feeling emotionally safe. So when I moved to region 13, then I saw that it wasn't just my district, it was every single district in 2007 or eight. I worked in a private clinic, but because I love the schools, I was always contracted out to the schools. And it was around that time that I started to realize because in our district, we used a workload model, not a caseload model, but in the early 2010s because funding was cut through the Texas Legislature around then, I realized that our workload increased tremendously because special education director was like, hey, Phong, we can't pay the contracted people anymore. We have to put the work back towards your own SLPs. But at that time, they were already screaming. And what was interesting to me is that as I moved through these organizations, I was like, My people are having a really hard time, and they're like, No, are they? It was interesting, like every time I brought it up, and I was like, they are. And so in 2019 I wrote a book. It was called the heartbeat of speech language therapy. And in that book, it was the book that I wish I would have had, starting out within the schools, and it was about the connection and the rapport, but then at the ultimately, we are tethered to these systems that say, No, this is how it is. And I'm like, is it really how it is? Because I know the law too. And so I wrote this book, and I looked at the people who purchased the book, and Dr. Tobias Kroll from Texas Tech University was one of those people. And so I reached out to thank him, like, Hey. I just wanted to say thank you for purchasing the book. And honestly, you're attached to university. I'm curious why you purchase this book. So that's where our narratives intersected. Role, you know, we go through covid, and then I would say, in the fall of 2020, I don't know who initiated it, but we were like, we're going to pick this back up, and we're going to make it research. So Phuong had her in the trenches hands, and at that point, I was still supporting schools through assessments and therapy, but doing a lot of professional development. I'm a big person on multilingual rights, culturally responsive practices, evidence based practices and advocacy for school based SLPs. And then Dr. Kroll will share with you what he does in his lovely university. But it was a beautiful complement to doing this research.