In mid-June, the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), in partnership with the Reinvention Lab powered by Teach For America, gathered a "change-maker" group of students, educators, and education leaders. The people who gathered were committed to a learner-centered, radically different future of education. The question posed to the group, when faced with a summer that could lead to a "return to normal school" in most of the country, was: How do we help schools prevent "back to normal" inertia and fuel change? One key theme, and the nuances of that theme, kept trickling into the conversation as a potential answer to this question: "Create space." How can school systems and communities not only create the space to be creative but in those spaces build a momentum for change that will defeat the pull to "return to normal"? A few ideas came through in the discussion.