20 Lessons to Weave Creativity Book Launch!
Greetings to all creativity enthusiasts and educators! Today, we’re excited to share the wonderful experience of the book launch for “20 Lessons to Weave Creative Thinking into Your Curriculum” in Santiago, Chile, in August 2023. This event brought together educators, friends, and family to celebrate creativity and education. The event was led by Francisca Petrovich, […]
Creativity Blooms Best in Summer
By the time summer rolls around, students are done learning and want nothing more than to spend the next three months doing as little learning as possible. However, when it comes to creativity, summer is actually the best time to be learning. After all, it’s the most sunny of the seasons, and sunnier days support […]
Family Game Night With A Creative Twist
The first mission “Create Your Own Family Camp”, was released last week, and today we are releasing the second mission: “Family Game Night”. Games are a wonderful way to bring people together. There is a joy to be found in playing long-standing family favorites, and also in discovering completely new games. But what if you […]
Create Your Own Summer Family Camp!
The first activity in our Summer Series is Creating Your Own Family Camp! You may choose to watch this video that outlines and shows examples of each step, or simply follow the instructions listed below! If you have any questions, feel free to comment or reach out to me directly at cyndi@creativityandeducation.com Enjoy your summer! […]
Revisit, Repurpose, Reinvent: Reenergize Your Creative Practice
Does your classroom need a creative reboot? Teachers, are you looking for ways to energize your own creative capacities? Parents, have you considered sharing creativity with your children? Find new creative energy as you unlock possibilities using everyday objects. By revisiting an ordinary object and expanding its possibilities with your imagination, you open opportunity spaces […]
A Scholarly Journey to Redefining Creativity with Dr. Marta Davidovich Ockuly
The following is one of the first interviews we had on the Fueling Creativity in Education Podcast with Dr. Marta Davovich Ockuly on Redefining Creativity. You can listen to the podcast or read the transcript below! Matthew Worwood: I wonder if you could share a little more about your personal journey that led to the […]
Infusing Creativity into Your College Course
Do you think it is important to infuse creative thinking skills into a college course? Imagine you are sitting in a college class. The professor walks in, turns on her presentation, and lectures for 90 minutes. You take copious notes, study hard, take a test to prove you know the content, and likely forget most […]
Creative Ways to Challenge Gifted Students
Usually, when people hear the word “gifted”, the first thing they think is that this person is smart. Typically this means that things come easily to them, and/or they’re particularly skilled in an academic subject area such as math or ELA. The problem with this characterization is that it often overlooks the fact that giftedness […]
Translation of the Creative Thinking Skills Handout
April 21st is World Creativity and Innovation Day (#WCID)! The United Nations sanctioned this day to encourage creative thinking to help us achieve the sustainable future we want. The theme for this year is collaboration. When speaking with my creative contributors, I asked them what we might do to collaborate and celebrate our creativity. Lucy […]
Tips to Bring Creativity into the Classroom
It’s World Creativity and Innovation Week! Today we asked our contributors for a tip to bring creativity into their classrooms! Here is what they said: Dr. Cyndi Burnett My Bio Dr. Cyndi Burnett is the Director of Possibilities for Creativity and Education. Like her creativity-focused curriculum for students and teachers, Cyndi embraces the creative lifestyle […]
Who are your creativity influencers?
Who are the creativity influencers inspiring new ways of understanding, defining, and engaging in creativity at this point in the 21st century? The term ‘creativity influencers’ came into my awareness as a newly minted creativity educator teaching adult undergraduate students in a BA degree completion program at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL. The course […]
Books To Help You Live A More Creative Life
Are you ready to live a more creative life? In celebration of World Creativity and Innovation Week, we asked our contributors to share the book that has helped them to live a more creative life. Here is what they said: We would love to hear from you! What books have helped you to live […]
What are your creative rituals?
When it comes to creativity, there are all sorts of rituals and routines that people swear by. Whether it’s taking a walk in nature, listening to music, or simply taking some time for yourself each day, creative rituals can help you tap into your creative side. While there’s no one-size-fits-all solution, creative rituals can be […]
Tips to Live a More Creative Life
World Creativity and Innovation Week is here! This week we’re going to sharing a series of blog posts that will help you infuse creative thinking into your home, classroom, and life. Today’s theme is “Tips for Living a More Creative Life.” We asked our creative contributors what tip they’d share, and here are the responses: […]
Fueling Creativity Podcast Anniversary Episode
We’re celebrating one year of the Fueling Creativity podcast! We thought it would be fun to share this episode with you as an audio recording and a blog post, as it sheds light into the four themes that have emerged over the last year . The transcript has been modified for flow and reading ease […]
Escape with 21st Century Skills
The Push for STEM Anyone associated with education in the United States knows about the push for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) activities to develop students’ abilities to be innovative and competitive in an ever-changing world. This focus is one more thing to add to educators’ repertoires, but at least this one has great […]
Infusing Creativity into the Classroom with Dr. Susan Keller-Mathers
For the last year, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood have been interviewing the leading creativity scholars, practitioners, administrators, and educators on creativity and education on the Fueling Creativity Podcast. The goal of this podcast is to bridge the gap between research and practice, informing a richer discussion on creativity in education. These interviews […]
STEM: The Perfect Conduit for Creativity
Imagine the following scenario. You give a student a few popsicle sticks, a sheet of sandpaper, a handful of paperclips, a rainbow of chenille sticks, a couple of rubber bands, a fistful of cotton balls, half a dozen toothpicks, and a glue gun, and you tell her, “make me a cell phone stand.” There are […]
The Need for Creative Thinking in Our Schools
As a head teacher of two primary schools in East London, I was recently asked to present a ‘practitioner’s’ response to a recent report published by the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education, and I was very pleased to do so. The place of creativity in our education system is a conversation where I believe […]
The Possibilities of a Cardboard Box
When children receive presents for a birthday or holiday, parents often lament after spending tons of money on some newfangled toy, only to watch their child find more fascination with the box it came in. Why is this? What is so intriguing about something without any bells nor whistles? What is it about four sides […]
Creativity, Courage, and Curiosity in the Classroom
Growing up, I didn’t think I was creative. I wasn’t good at traditional arts, and there weren’t a lot of people who looked like me—Asian American. Moreover, in school, I’d only seen arts, crafts, and music being celebrated as creative outlets, so how could I have understood that creativity is so much more? I didn’t […]