Creativity

Try It

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Discuss It

In person or online, dive into these essential questions:

  • What strikes you as noteworthy about this scene?
  • Where in school are our students at their most creative?
  • When students approach a problem in a way that isn’t being taught, are they penalized or rewarded?
  • Do our students have the opportunity to sharpen creativity through collaboration?
  • On balance, do we think our school is helping or hurting student creativity? Is our school driven by compliance or creativity?
  • Are teachers in our school allowed to be creative? Encouraged to be  creative?
  • What micro-innovations we could try to foster student creativity? Teacher creativity?

Explore It

Check out Sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talk “Do Schools Kill Creativity”