ABSTRACT
Two experts on creative leadership and state-level education management address the potential of the practitioner. Every practitioner's personal vision must be revealed and honored. There are important reasons to discover and honor them, however; among other things, it is the practitioner's vision that contains prescriptions for school reform and reinvention that have the best chance to be taken seriously and enacted. The orientation of educators toward students and the classroom is absolutely essential for policy making at the state level. Even cloning the hundreds of outstanding teachers attending this Retreat would be useless unless we also developed a system that would organize outstanding educators so that their talents can be used. The issue is, really, how educators would write state content standards. Finally, educators must keep sight of the issues that influence them, and must translate that knowledge into actions that can influence others.
