Creative Reasoning doesn’t start with a big initiative. It starts with a question. When something isn’t working, the instinct in most schools is to add: a new program, a new curriculum, a new committee. But some of the most powerful progress comes from questioning the routines we already run and making small shifts to adjust what we already do.
Use the What If? Scenario Starter, drawn directly from action steps in the SAIS Teaching & Learning Framework. Here’s how it works:
- Name a routine your team runs on autopilot
- Surface the assumption underneath it
- Apply a “what if” and ask what would change for students
- Choose one small test to try before you meet again
Fifteen minutes. One routine. One small test, not a new initiative. Which “what if” would spark the most conversation at your school?
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