Deaf education in the United States began in 1817 with the bilingual co-leadership of Laurent Clerc and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. In 2018, Marianne Belsky and Nicole Sutliffe, a bilingual, deaf/hearing team, were officially appointed as co-leaders of the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center. In this article, Belsky and Sutliffe share the initiatives underway at Clerc Center to address critical issues facing deaf education today: collaboration, leadership, equity, reimagination, and community (CLERC). Each of these themes contributes to the final Clerc Center mission: excellence in deaf education across the United States.