Heads of School need a kind of support that they are not receiving, and it will limit their effectiveness during this unprecedented time of COVID-19 and national reckoning with systemic racism. The Riverbank Colleague is able to meet this support need and help position leaders and schools to rise to meet the challenges downstream. In his essay “Riverbank Colleagues: The Resource Leaders Need to Take on The Next Rapids,” Ross Peters, Vice President of School Strategy for EXPLO Elevate, discusses this critical need.