For a librarian with an innovator's mindset, inquiry can be a collaborative strategy for continual growth. When a librarian innovates with their community, radical, human-centered change is possible. According to the author, school librarians see the needs in the communities across grades, content areas, and demographics. The best advocacy is solving somebody else's problems. When planning is human-centered and empathy-driven school librarians can design novel solutions that align with their common beliefs and shared foundations, address school and district mission and vision, "and" focus on the needs, interests, and values of those communities they serve. Ideation is critical in the planning process. One way to attack innovation ideation is to examine the roots of a thing to see how school librarians might plant and grow it a little differently. The word radical simply means proceeding from the root, relating to or affecting something's fundamental nature. Data without context are empty of impact. In addition to the counting or checking off of inputs and outputs, the range of metrics school librarians might use also includes more meaningful outcomes and impacts describing how they close identified gaps and creatively solve problems.