KIPP Chicago staff see their work as driving toward social, political, and economic equity by increasing the number of students of color who graduate from college. They choose specifically to work with families of color in low-income communities within Chicago, and that is their defining professional choice. They want to know that their school is doing right by these kids and families by setting intentional yearly growth targets for kids that will place them on a path to college graduation and holding staff accountable to students’ performance relative to those targets. They want to belong to a network of schools working for the same purposes, knowing their work contributes to city-wide and nation-wide change for people of color.