At the staff meeting, we spend hours and hours planning how a new staffing pattern will solve our problems. We try it and it fails in creative ways. Perhaps I'll return to just telling people what is going to happen. Or perhaps, we'll continue the process at the next staff meeting. We'll analyze what went well and not so well and revise the plan together.
Creativity requires risks.
Sometimes when I take risks I fail. Just as often, however, even with the failures, I feel exhilaration and freedom as I learn something about my college students, my toddlers, my staff, or myself. If we create an environment of trust that accepts and expects new ideas and failures, than creativity will blossom. In this issue of the Reporter , you will find many stories of creativity and risk-taking. I hope that you find them helpful.