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Creativity and Education

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Dive into our expert blogs to explore new ideas, strategies, and insights
on bringing creativity to your classroom.
Divergent vs. Convergent Thinking

Divergent vs. Convergent Thinking

What Is Your Walk-In Song? Using Music to Spark Creativity

What Is Your Walk-In Song? Using Music to Spark Creativity

What Does a Common Grackle Sound Like?

What Does a Common Grackle Sound Like?

What Is Your Joy Jam? Why Joy Is Fuel for Creative Work

What Is Your Joy Jam? Why Joy Is Fuel for Creative Work

Why Creative Teaching is About Change in the System

Why Creative Teaching is About Change in the System

Creative Teaching in STEM: A Curated Podcast Collection for Educators

Creative Teaching in STEM: A Curated Podcast Collection for Educators

Unlocking Creativity in Gifted Education: A Curated Podcast Collection

Unlocking Creativity in Gifted Education: A Curated Podcast Collection

Are Your Students Evolving into Their Creative Potential?

Are Your Students Evolving into Their Creative Potential?

Make It Swing Make It Ring

Make It Swing Make It Ring

My Sandwich is a Spaceship:  Creative Thinking for Parents with Young Children (ages 2-8) The APP

My Sandwich is a Spaceship: Creative Thinking for Parents with Young Children (ages 2-8) The APP

Everyday Creativity with Ruth Richards

Everyday Creativity with Ruth Richards

Infusing Creative Thinking into Higher Ed

Infusing Creative Thinking into Higher Ed

20 Lessons to Weave Creativity Book Launch!

20 Lessons to Weave Creativity Book Launch!

Creative Family Fun Summer Activities

Creative Family Fun Summer Activities

Fueling Creativity in Education: Listen and Learn Series

Fueling Creativity in Education: Listen and Learn Series

The Thinking Teacher is a Creative Teacher with Dr. Kulvarn Atwal

The Thinking Teacher is a Creative Teacher with Dr. Kulvarn Atwal

Exposing Students to Different Cultures with Joann McPike

Exposing Students to Different Cultures with Joann McPike

Applying Art Therapy to the Classroom

Applying Art Therapy to the Classroom

Creativity and Emotions with Zorana Ivcevic Pringle

Creativity and Emotions with Zorana Ivcevic Pringle

Be a Mentor and Find a Mentor and Community Engagement

Be a Mentor and Find a Mentor and Community Engagement

You Have to Practice at Being Creative

You Have to Practice at Being Creative

Promoting Creativity in Music Class with Adrian Gordon

Promoting Creativity in Music Class with Adrian Gordon

The Future and Education – Rethinking How We Measure Success in Education

The Future and Education – Rethinking How We Measure Success in Education

Faciliating Artist Dates in the Classroom

Faciliating Artist Dates in the Classroom

Creative Advocacy Makes for Creative Action

Creative Advocacy Makes for Creative Action

Using Chess to Teach Perseverance with Principal El

Using Chess to Teach Perseverance with Principal El

Variations on a Theme

Variations on a Theme

Giving Up Control in the Classroom with Andrea Mango

Giving Up Control in the Classroom with Andrea Mango

Why Creativity is More Collaborative Than You Think: A Look at Edward Clapp’s Participatory Creativity

Why Creativity is More Collaborative Than You Think: A Look at Edward Clapp’s Participatory Creativity

Art Makes Creativity Visible with Dr. Penny Hay

Art Makes Creativity Visible with Dr. Penny Hay

The Launch of Season Six: New Ideas Brewing

The Launch of Season Six: New Ideas Brewing

Durham College’s Creativity: A Personal Understanding

Durham College’s Creativity: A Personal Understanding

Design Thinking as Art Therapy

Design Thinking as Art Therapy

Why are MakerSpaces trending? Why is Maker Education so important?

Why are MakerSpaces trending? Why is Maker Education so important?

Deviance and Creativity: A Different Perspective on Troublemakers

Deviance and Creativity: A Different Perspective on Troublemakers

Play or Academics?

Play or Academics?

Identifying Creative Abilities in Students

Identifying Creative Abilities in Students

What is Your Dream Machine? With Piet Grymonprez

What is Your Dream Machine? With Piet Grymonprez

Three Ways to Nurture Creative Potential

Three Ways to Nurture Creative Potential

Extra-Curricular Competitions that Celebrate Creativity

Extra-Curricular Competitions that Celebrate Creativity

X Amount Of Ways To Embrace Mistakes!

X Amount Of Ways To Embrace Mistakes!

5 Skills University Students Gain from Design Thinking

5 Skills University Students Gain from Design Thinking

Five Easy Ways to Ignite the Love of Learning

Five Easy Ways to Ignite the Love of Learning

Your Final Creativity Mission: Recolor Your World

Your Final Creativity Mission: Recolor Your World

Going Beyond Your Interest Zone

Going Beyond Your Interest Zone

Summer of Surprises! Family Activity

Summer of Surprises! Family Activity

A Colorful Scavenger Hunt in Nature

A Colorful Scavenger Hunt in Nature

Creativity Blooms Best in Summer

Creativity Blooms Best in Summer

Family Game Night With A Creative Twist

Family Game Night With A Creative Twist

Create Your Own Summer Family Camp!

Create Your Own Summer Family Camp!

Revisit, Repurpose, Reinvent:  Reenergize Your Creative Practice

Revisit, Repurpose, Reinvent: Reenergize Your Creative Practice

A Scholarly Journey to Redefining Creativity with Dr. Marta Davidovich Ockuly

A Scholarly Journey to Redefining Creativity with Dr. Marta Davidovich Ockuly

Infusing Creativity into Your College Course

Infusing Creativity into Your College Course

Creative Ways to Challenge Gifted Students

Creative Ways to Challenge Gifted Students

Solve the Real Problem in Your Classroom

Solve the Real Problem in Your Classroom

Using a Disciplinary Lens  to Expand Creativity

Using a Disciplinary Lens to Expand Creativity

Translation of the Creative Thinking Skills Handout

Translation of the Creative Thinking Skills Handout

Tips to Bring Creativity into the Classroom

Tips to Bring Creativity into the Classroom

Who are your creativity influencers?

Who are your creativity influencers?

Books To Help You Live A More Creative Life

Books To Help You Live A More Creative Life

How do you reignite your creative spark?

How do you reignite your creative spark?

What are your creative rituals?

What are your creative rituals?

Tips to Live a More Creative Life

Tips to Live a More Creative Life

World Creativity and Innovation Day – Let’s celebrate it!

World Creativity and Innovation Day – Let’s celebrate it!

Fueling Creativity Podcast Anniversary Episode

Fueling Creativity Podcast Anniversary Episode

Escape with 21st Century Skills

Escape with 21st Century Skills

Infusing Creativity into the Classroom with Dr. Susan Keller-Mathers

Infusing Creativity into the Classroom with Dr. Susan Keller-Mathers

STEM: The Perfect Conduit for Creativity

STEM: The Perfect Conduit for Creativity

The Next Hour: Make Space, Fill with Intention, Create Change

The Next Hour: Make Space, Fill with Intention, Create Change

Art as Therapy

Art as Therapy

The Need for Creative Thinking in Our Schools

The Need for Creative Thinking in Our Schools

Teach Like A Pirate: A Book Review

Teach Like A Pirate: A Book Review

How to Create a Learning Corner at Home for Kids

How to Create a Learning Corner at Home for Kids

Pandemic Stories

Pandemic Stories

I’ll pair a creativity skill with that gift!

I’ll pair a creativity skill with that gift!

The Possibilities of a Cardboard Box

The Possibilities of a Cardboard Box

Honoring Student Diversity through Choice

Honoring Student Diversity through Choice

I am Creative. (Say it with me now).

I am Creative. (Say it with me now).

Creativity, Courage, and Curiosity in the Classroom

Creativity, Courage, and Curiosity in the Classroom

Tips for Tutoring: Fostering a Creative Learning Environment to Help Students Gain Agency and Confidence

Tips for Tutoring: Fostering a Creative Learning Environment to Help Students Gain Agency and Confidence

Creativity Day at Durham College

Creativity Day at Durham College

Making Space for Creativity in the Trauma-Informed Classroom

Making Space for Creativity in the Trauma-Informed Classroom

How to Create Your Own Makerspace in Any Classroom

How to Create Your Own Makerspace in Any Classroom

20 Lessons to Weave Creative Thinking <br>into Your Curriculum

20 Lessons to Weave Creative Thinking
into Your Curriculum

Look at it Another Way: <br> How to Use a Native American Lens to Explore Empathy in the Classroom

Look at it Another Way:
How to Use a Native American Lens to Explore Empathy in the Classroom

How to be Playful in the Classroom When You Think You Are Not a Playful Person

How to be Playful in the Classroom When You Think You Are Not a Playful Person

College During the Pandemic: <br>How Students Create Success

College During the Pandemic:
How Students Create Success

Silenzio, Bruno! Building Fearless Environments to Promote Creativity in Schools

Silenzio, Bruno! Building Fearless Environments to Promote Creativity in Schools

How to Use Creativity to Get Out of a Rut

How to Use Creativity to Get Out of a Rut

Why Creating Imaginary Worlds During Play Is Beneficial

Why Creating Imaginary Worlds During Play Is Beneficial

Mandatory Fun: How to Bring a Little Play Into the High School Classroom

Mandatory Fun: How to Bring a Little Play Into the High School Classroom

Let’s play!  Ideas to Engage your Children in Creative Play

Let’s play! Ideas to Engage your Children in Creative Play

I Practice What I Teach

I Practice What I Teach

Intentional Creative Thinking at Home: Lessons from a Visual Arts Teacher

Intentional Creative Thinking at Home: Lessons from a Visual Arts Teacher

Supporting Creative Confidence in the Art Room

Supporting Creative Confidence in the Art Room

Asking the “Why” in the Arts

Asking the “Why” in the Arts

Copying for Creativity

Copying for Creativity

Animal Crossing: The “New Horizon” in Distance Learning

Animal Crossing: The “New Horizon” in Distance Learning

A Catalyst for New Thinking: The Concert of Ideas

A Catalyst for New Thinking: The Concert of Ideas