News headlines rightfully call out funding shortages, worrisome test scores, achievement gaps, sexual abuse scandals, and other problems that demand attention from parents, teachers, and officials alike. We pause less often to consider the hopeful, the thoughtful, the dogged, the visionary. In this year’s annual schools roundup, in addition to the area’s most complete guide to private schools, we offer a look at the educators and students, from Portland and beyond, in schools public and private, whose work is quietly changing the game, for the better.