Big Wins, Small Steps
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Don’t sink your school’s creativity—encourage it to set sail!
Do today’s schools stifle creativity? Some think so. Whether or not that assessment is fair, educational leaders need to innovate, implement creative leadership and cultivate possibility thinking.
This book is the definitive resource for making creativity a schoolwide core value. Introducing the groundbreaking Small Steps Approach to Instructional Leadership (SAIL) framework, Ronald A. Beghetto shows how big wins come from small, completely doable steps, and all creativity needs is a little nudge from you, the instructional leader. Content includes:
- “Creative leader checklists” summarizing actionable points in each chapter.
- The keys to removing the most difficult creative barriers
- How to sit with uncertainty instead of letting it derail innovation efforts
- When to “flow like water”, and when to “stand like a mountain” as you re-focus your school towards creativity
Implementing these principles will produce positive effects that resonate in every aspect of your school.
Watch this video from Ron Beghetto on "Responding to Uncertainty."
Check out the PCR Interview for Big Wins, Small Steps.
"Ron Beghetto's engaging work on creativity has profound implications for schools, and for the staff and students within them."
Larry Rosenstock, CEO
High Tech High
“Creativity has become the holy-grail in education. Beghetto presents an authoritative, accessible, and unpretentious pathway toward creative leadership. Insightful, practical, and based on solid research, not popular myth.”
Yong Zhao, Author of World Class Learners
"Creativity is needed to negotiate a complex world. Big Wins, Small Steps invites educators to teach creativity by first practicing deliberate creativity one small step at a time."
Beth Miller, Executive Director
Creative Education Foundation
Contents
Preface
Preface
Chapter 1. Respond Creatively: A Small-Steps Approach
- Rethinking Creative Leadership
- Responding to Uncertainty
- Introducing the SAIL Framework
Chapter 2. Sit With Uncertainty
- The Creative Potential of Uncertainty
- Sit With Uncertainty: Principles of Practice
- Putting the Principles in Practice
Chapter 3. Engage in Possibility Thinking
- Possibility Thinking: A Different Way of Reasoning
- Engage in Possibility Thinking: Principles of Practice
- Putting the Principles in Practice
Chapter 4. Prune Possibilities
- The Power of Pruning Possibilities
- Creativity and Criticism
- Prune Possibilities: Principles of Practice
- Putting the Principles in Practice
Chapter 5. Take Measured Action
- The Power of Small Data
- The Progress Principle
- Take Measured Action: Principles of Practice
- Putting the Principles in Practice
Chapter 6. Reclaiming Your Creativity as an Instructional Leader
- A Dozen Action Items for Instructional Leaders
- Creativity Resources
Appendix A: Creative Leader Checklists
Appendix A: Creative Leader Checklists
Appendix B: Ground Rules
Appendix B: Ground Rules
Appendix C: Heuristics for Possibility Thinking
Appendix C: Heuristics for Possibility Thinking
Appendix D: Action Items for Instructional Leaders
Appendix D: Action Items for Instructional Leaders
Description
Don’t sink your school’s creativity—encourage it to set sail!
Do today’s schools stifle creativity? Some think so. Whether or not that assessment is fair, educational leaders need to innovate, implement creative leadership and cultivate possibility thinking.
This book is the definitive resource for making creativity a schoolwide core value. Introducing the groundbreaking Small Steps Approach to Instructional Leadership (SAIL) framework, Ronald A. Beghetto shows how big wins come from small, completely doable steps, and all creativity needs is a little nudge from you, the instructional leader. Content includes:
- “Creative leader checklists” summarizing actionable points in each chapter.
- The keys to removing the most difficult creative barriers
- How to sit with uncertainty instead of letting it derail innovation efforts
- When to “flow like water”, and when to “stand like a mountain” as you re-focus your school towards creativity
Implementing these principles will produce positive effects that resonate in every aspect of your school.
Watch this video from Ron Beghetto on "Responding to Uncertainty."
Check out the PCR Interview for Big Wins, Small Steps.
"Ron Beghetto's engaging work on creativity has profound implications for schools, and for the staff and students within them."
Larry Rosenstock, CEO
High Tech High
“Creativity has become the holy-grail in education. Beghetto presents an authoritative, accessible, and unpretentious pathway toward creative leadership. Insightful, practical, and based on solid research, not popular myth.”
Yong Zhao, Author of World Class Learners
"Creativity is needed to negotiate a complex world. Big Wins, Small Steps invites educators to teach creativity by first practicing deliberate creativity one small step at a time."
Beth Miller, Executive Director
Creative Education Foundation
Contents
Preface
Preface
Chapter 1. Respond Creatively: A Small-Steps Approach
- Rethinking Creative Leadership
- Responding to Uncertainty
- Introducing the SAIL Framework
Chapter 2. Sit With Uncertainty
- The Creative Potential of Uncertainty
- Sit With Uncertainty: Principles of Practice
- Putting the Principles in Practice
Chapter 3. Engage in Possibility Thinking
- Possibility Thinking: A Different Way of Reasoning
- Engage in Possibility Thinking: Principles of Practice
- Putting the Principles in Practice
Chapter 4. Prune Possibilities
- The Power of Pruning Possibilities
- Creativity and Criticism
- Prune Possibilities: Principles of Practice
- Putting the Principles in Practice
Chapter 5. Take Measured Action
- The Power of Small Data
- The Progress Principle
- Take Measured Action: Principles of Practice
- Putting the Principles in Practice
Chapter 6. Reclaiming Your Creativity as an Instructional Leader
- A Dozen Action Items for Instructional Leaders
- Creativity Resources
Appendix A: Creative Leader Checklists
Appendix A: Creative Leader Checklists
Appendix B: Ground Rules
Appendix B: Ground Rules
Appendix C: Heuristics for Possibility Thinking
Appendix C: Heuristics for Possibility Thinking
Appendix D: Action Items for Instructional Leaders
Appendix D: Action Items for Instructional Leaders
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April 2016 | 160 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/02/2026 | 9781483385464 | $37.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/02/2026 | 9781506343044 | $35.00 |
Don’t sink your school’s creativity—encourage it to set sail!
Do today’s schools stifle creativity? Some think so. Whether or not that assessment is fair, educational leaders need to innovate, implement creative leadership and cultivate possibility thinking.
This book is the definitive resource for making creativity a schoolwide core value. Introducing the groundbreaking Small Steps Approach to Instructional Leadership (SAIL) framework, Ronald A. Beghetto shows how big wins come from small, completely doable steps, and all creativity needs is a little nudge from you, the instructional leader. Content includes:
- “Creative leader checklists” summarizing actionable points in each chapter.
- The keys to removing the most difficult creative barriers
- How to sit with uncertainty instead of letting it derail innovation efforts
- When to “flow like water”, and when to “stand like a mountain” as you re-focus your school towards creativity
Implementing these principles will produce positive effects that resonate in every aspect of your school.
Watch this video from Ron Beghetto on "Responding to Uncertainty."
Check out the PCR Interview for Big Wins, Small Steps.
"Ron Beghetto's engaging work on creativity has profound implications for schools, and for the staff and students within them."
Larry Rosenstock, CEO
High Tech High
“Creativity has become the holy-grail in education. Beghetto presents an authoritative, accessible, and unpretentious pathway toward creative leadership. Insightful, practical, and based on solid research, not popular myth.”
Yong Zhao, Author of World Class Learners
"Creativity is needed to negotiate a complex world. Big Wins, Small Steps invites educators to teach creativity by first practicing deliberate creativity one small step at a time."
Beth Miller, Executive Director
Creative Education Foundation
Table Of Contents:
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Respond Creatively: A Small-Steps Approach
- Rethinking Creative Leadership
- Responding to Uncertainty
- Introducing the SAIL Framework
- Chapter 2. Sit With Uncertainty
- The Creative Potential of Uncertainty
- Sit With Uncertainty: Principles of Practice
- Putting the Principles in Practice
- Chapter 3. Engage in Possibility Thinking
- Possibility Thinking: A Different Way of Reasoning
- Engage in Possibility Thinking: Principles of Practice
- Putting the Principles in Practice
- Chapter 4. Prune Possibilities
- The Power of Pruning Possibilities
- Creativity and Criticism
- Prune Possibilities: Principles of Practice
- Putting the Principles in Practice
- Chapter 5. Take Measured Action
- The Power of Small Data
- The Progress Principle
- Take Measured Action: Principles of Practice
- Putting the Principles in Practice
- Chapter 6. Reclaiming Your Creativity as an Instructional Leader
- A Dozen Action Items for Instructional Leaders
- Creativity Resources
- Appendix A: Creative Leader Checklists
- Appendix B: Ground Rules
- Appendix C: Heuristics for Possibility Thinking
- Appendix D: Action Items for Instructional Leaders