Since hosting the first Change the Script gathering in 2015, focused on listening to the voices of young people, we have seen a major shift in the importance and need for life skills or Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in the education landscape. This year, we want to shift the conversation to understand and unpack the systemic barriers that prevent all young people from thriving. We also aim to ensure that the large-scale life-skills interventions are designed equitably to include every child. This can only happen when systems change their markers of success from narrow definitions of academic or employment outcomes, to broader objectives of thriving.