Étale homotopy theory was invented by artin and mazur in the 1960s as a way to associate to a scheme x, a homotopy type with fundamental group the étale fundamental group of x and whose cohomology captures the étale cohomology of x with locally constant constructible coefficients. in this talk we'll explain how to construct a stratified refinement of the étale homotopy type that classifies constructible étale sheaves and gives rise to a new definition of the étale homotopy type. the stratified étale homotopy type also plays a role in the reconstruction of schemes: in nice cases, schemes can be completely reconstructed from their stratified étale homotopy types. this is joint work with clark barwick and saul glasman.