PACT (Padmashree Academy for Creative Teaching) was formed with a goal to develop individuals who value knowledge, learning and the creative process, who can and will think for themselves, yet recognize the limits of individual reflection and the need to contribute to and build upon mutual understandings of social situations. Creative or innovative thinking is the kind of thinking that leads to new insights, novel approaches, fresh perspectives, and whole new ways of understanding and conceiving of things. An integral part of teaching methodologies designed to foster critical and creative reflection is the type of classroom environment, which the PACT helps the teacher to create. It also makes the Teachers to move towards making their classrooms more thoughtful places by making judgments and decisions from a base of empathy and understanding, by valuing originality and authenticity, and by using differences of opinion as teaching situations, which invite thoughtful analyses.