Two researchers from the Learning Differences Initiative present work in progress. Their work underscores important windows in which attention to learning differences has the potential to forge new realities in schools. Annamma’s research highlights the national reality of youth prison education as exacerbations of inequities in public schools and the abolition of carceral systems as an alternative. Handy focuses on teacher preparation in urban areas. Her work explores how teachers are prepared in ways that uphold white saviorism ideas entrenched in ableism, making teacher preparation work toward equitable schooling unstable.