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Imagine this: The monthly staff meeting is coming up, but instead of dreading it, you welcome the opportunity to get together with your colleagues. Your supervisor has sent out an agenda a few days in advance that starts with a brainstorming exercise and includes small group break-out sessions to discuss various aspects of an upcoming school-wide program and time to address issues collected from all staff members that were submitted before the schedule was created. You note the time and place of the meeting �" after all, these change consistently to keep things interesting �" and are pleased to see you’ll be meeting in the outside staff courtyard the hour before the children arrive. What a great way to ring in the day! This staff meeting, like all those at your place of employment, promises to be interesting, innovative, inclusive and, most importantly, important and not a waste of your time.Early childhood professionals are surrounded by creativity and innovation. Children don’t hesitate to ask difficult questions about the world around them and challenge the things they encounter on a daily basis. Yet teachers and staff working in such settings quickly fall into routines, doing the same things in the same fashion ...