To be sure, learning happens within a vast and complex ecosystem: not only in schools and not only with teachers. School leaders, policymakers, parents, food and nutrition workers, groundskeepers, WASH experts, and students themselves, among many others, contribute to a thriving education ecosystem. Alongside teachers, these individuals co-create learning spaces and learning opportunities -- many of which are dependent on nonhuman actors such as technologies, infrastructure, built environments, curricula, and much more. In any ecosystem, when one piece of a complex landscape is disrupted, the whole system feels it. And when keystone species or actors are missing, everything and everyone else in the ecosystem feels it even more profoundly. The ecosystem is altered, sometimes irreparably.