Fueling Creativity in Education
Episodes
Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
In this debrief episode, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood reflect on the first five episodes of Season 4. Cyndi revisits creative potential and the value of integrating student interests into the learning experience. At the same time, Matthew discusses expression preferences and the ability to know when to use and not use computer algorithms to support the creative process. Cyndi and Matthew also take time to reflect on the different ways they've both used video to engage their children in creative production.
If you haven't listened to all five episodes of Season 4 (+ the BONUS episode), check out the links below to go back and listen, so you don't miss out on any golden nuggets of wisdom! Then, share your favorite episode with a colleague, parent, friend, or anyone else who could benefit from the show's information.
Matt's Insights
Expression preferences: We all like to express our creativity through different outlets. How many opportunities do you give your students to do that?
The "future creative" is someone who knows when to use the algorithm and when to turn it off.
Each of us has a unique creative potential. How can you find that in your students and help them act on it? (hint: Personal Interest Projects!)
Cynthia's Insights
There are significant benefits to using digital innovation, like YouTube videos, to demonstrate problem-solving and creativity skills.
Creative potential: Look for things that differentiate your students and find ways to showcase and/or nurture that creative potential.
Give your students resources and tools that encourage exploration and development of their personal interests, like Personal Interest Projects.
Go back and listen to Season 4:
Listen to S4 Episode 1 with Mark Runco
Listen to S4 Episode 2 with Frances Valintine
Listen to S4 Episode 3 with Carrington Faulk
Listen to S4 Episode 4 with Dr. Elizabeth Radday
Listen to S4 Episode 5 with Dr. Joseph Renzulli
Listen to the S4 BONUS Episode: Parenting for Creativity
Watch different video examples on the DadsforCreativity YouTube channel and review some easy video projects quickly enacted at home.
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Eager to bring more creativity into your home or classroom?
Access various creativity resources and tools & listen to more episodes of The Fueling Creativity in Education Podcast by visiting www.CreativityandEducation.com.
What to learn more about Design Thinking in Education?
Do you want to build a sustained culture of innovation and creativity at your school? Visit WorwoodClassroom.com to learn how Design Thinking can promote teacher creativity and support professional growth in the classroom.
Have a question? Email Dr. Burnett and Dr. Worwood at questions@fuelingcreativitypodcast.com!
You can also find The Fueling Creativity in Education Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, and PodBean! Make sure to rate, review, and share the podcast if you enjoy it!
Thursday Jun 16, 2022
Thursday Jun 16, 2022
The month of June celebrates Father's Day, and this prompted Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood to produce a special episode on parenting for Creativity. In a slightly different format, Cyndi interviews Matthew about his parenting blog, Dads for Creativity, and discusses the need to monitor parental bias when celebrating Creativity in the home environment.
"We have to be mindful of how our biases, and our backgrounds, and what we're into, and what we know, is going to influence our children's creative behaviors and what the pursue in the early years." - Matthew Worwood
Resources Mentioned:
Visit DadsforCreativity.com
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Eager to bring more creativity into your home or classroom?
Access various creativity resources and tools & listen to more episodes of The Fueling Creativity in Education Podcast by visiting www.CreativityandEducation.com.
What to learn more about Design Thinking in Education?
Do you want to build a sustained culture of innovation and creativity at your school? Visit WorwoodClassroom.com to learn how Design Thinking can promote teacher creativity and support professional growth in the classroom.
You can also find The Fueling Creativity Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, and PodBean! Make sure to rate, review, and share the podcast if you enjoy it!
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
In this short episode, Drs. Cyndi Burnett and Matthew Worwood discuss the reasons why they renamed the podcast - Fueling Creativity in Education, and provide an overview of the upcoming guests in Season 4.
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Eager to bring more creativity into your home or classroom?
Access various creativity resources and tools & listen to more episodes of The Fueling Creativity in Education Podcast by visiting www.CreativityandEducation.com.
What to learn more about Design Thinking in Education?
Do you want to build a sustained culture of innovation and creativity at your school? Visit WorwoodClassroom.com to learn how Design Thinking can promote teacher creativity and support professional growth in the classroom.
You can also find The Fueling Creativity Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, and PodBean! Make sure to rate, review, and share the podcast if you enjoy it!
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Tuesday May 03, 2022
What were the biggest lessons learned during the last five episodes in Season Three of the Fueling Creativity podcast? In this final debrief, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood sit down and reflect on episodes that discussed the relationship between Innovation, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, breaking with habit-bound thinking, developing a sense of awe in students, and Inward and Outward Creativity.
Listen in as Cyndi and Matthew break down the following insights.
Major Takeaways from Season Two, Episodes 6-10:
Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship. What's the connection? Do different groups have increased value for one over the other? Or are we discussing similar things in a different context?
A sense of awe in students. Awe is a sense of considerable astonishment in a person or topic. How might teachers facilitate awe toward the curriculum or subject? Should that be an ambition for creative teachers?
Inward and Outward Creativity. Sociocultural theory informs us that the actor engages in internal and external actions that include thoughts, ideas, and reactions in response to an environment. How do internal actions interact with other people inside a classroom environment? Does a sense of connection drive these actions, and is arts a bridge between inward and outward Creativity?
Resources Mentioned:
Listen to the episode with Anna Abraham
Listen to the episode with Monica Kang
Listen to the episode with Rachelle Archer
Subscribe to our monthly newsletter!
Eager to bring more creativity into your home or classroom?
Access various creativity resources and tools & listen to more episodes of The Fueling Creativity in Education Podcast by visiting www.CreativityandEducation.com.
What to learn more about Design Thinking in Education?
Do you want to build a sustained culture of innovation and creativity at your school? Visit WorwoodClassroom.com to learn how Design Thinking can promote teacher creativity and support professional growth in the classroom.
You can also find The Fueling Creativity Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, and PodBean! Make sure to rate, review, and share the podcast if you enjoy it!
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
What are you doing for this year's World Creativity and Innovation Week? In this special episode, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood provide small tips to help celebrate creativity in your life, your classroom, and in your family.
Past Episodes Mentioned:
Listen to the episode with Wendy Ross
Listen to the episode with Natalie Nixon
Listen to the episode with Jim Friedman
Resources for World Creativity and Innovation Week
World Creativity and Innovation Day Website
Our podcast interview with the Current Chief Steward of WCIW, Dr. Jim Friedman
Creativity and Education FREE Virtual Events
Raising a Generation of Creative Thinkers
Infusing Creative Thinking into Your Higher Education Classroom
Weaving Creative Thinking into your Pre-K-High School Classroom
Day of Surprises with your Family
Check out the Creative Thinking Challenges
Create Junk Inventions
Share the Creative Thinking Skills Sheet with Your Students
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Eager to bring more creativity into your home or classroom?
Access various creativity resources and tools & listen to more episodes of The Fueling Creativity in Education Podcast by visiting www.CreativityandEducation.com.
What to learn more about Design Thinking in Education?
Do you want to build a sustained culture of innovation and creativity at your school? Visit WorwoodClassroom.com to learn how Design Thinking can promote teacher creativity and support professional growth in the classroom.
You can also find The Fueling Creativity Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, and PodBean! Make sure to rate, review, and share the podcast if you enjoy it!
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
For this very special, one-year anniversary episode of the Fueling Creativity Podcast, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood have gone through all 28 interview transcriptions from the Fueling Creativity episodes and identified four powerful themes that have emerged from these discussions. They originally presented these themes at the Creativity Expert Exchange at SUNY Buffalo State.
Today, you get to listen in on this informative and powerful presentation! Or, you can read the transcript here.
If you’d like to book Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood to deliver this presentation as an interactive workshop to your school or institution, don’t hesitate to send them an email at questions@fuelingcreativitypodcast.com.
Themes & Subthemes from Year 1 of Fueling Creativity:
#1 – Setting the creative environment of the classroom
Trust and Safety
Risk-Taking- feeling comfortable making mistakes
Openness to new ideas and perspectives
Allow time for questions and exploration Encourage respectful debate
Challenging students to highest ability- not average
Value differences
Think beyond the walls of the classroom
#2 – Creative Teachers
Creative Teachers are designers
Creative Teachers Model Creative Behaviors and Attitudes
Creative Teachers are Lifelong Learners
Creative Teachers are open and willing to try new things
Creative Teachers take risks and are willing to admit if they failed or made a mistake
Creative Teachers make time for self-care
Creative Teachers don’t have all the answers
#3 – Instructional Practice
Ask Open-Ended questions
Embed time for wondering and curiosity
Expose students to diverse things (books, museums, nature, etc).
Use Inquiry/Problem Based Learning
Spend time problem-finding
Help students find meaning, purpose and connection to content
Work through ambiguity, uncertainty and complexity
Get students comfortable with discomfort and failure
Shift student perspectives, allowing an openness to new ideas
Explore feelings and emotions related to the learning/creative process
Give students agency- a choice and voice on what they are doing
#4 – The Future Creative (Preparing our students for the future!)
A person who is cable of working with people of varied backgrounds and perspectives
A person who can think ethically when selecting ideas and developing solutions
A person who can work though complex problems and manage change
A person who can identify what humans do best, and what machines might do better
A person who can work in collaboration with AI
“This pandemic, although challenging, is really highlighting the creativity that exists within the teaching profession.” - Dr. Matthew Worwood
Do you have a theme that we haven’t covered yet? Let us know! Email us at questions@fuelingcreativity.com.
Subscribe to our monthly newsletter!
Eager to bring more creativity into your home or classroom?
Access various creativity resources and tools & listen to more episodes of The Fueling Creativity in Education Podcast by visiting www.CreativityandEducation.com.
What to learn more about Design Thinking in Education?
Do you want to build a sustained culture of innovation and creativity at your school? Visit WorwoodClassroom.com to learn how Design Thinking can promote teacher creativity and support professional growth in the classroom.
You can also find The Fueling Creativity Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, and PodBean! Make sure to rate, review, and share the podcast if you enjoy it!
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
What were the biggest lessons learned during the first five episodes in Season Three of the Fueling Creativity podcast? In this Bridging the Gap episode, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood sit down and reflect on episodes that discussed reluctant creativity, inquiry-based learning, multi-cultural creativity, and integrating design ethics into the K-12 classroom.
Listen in as Cyndi and Matthew break down the following insights.
Major Takeaways from Season Three, Episodes 1-5:
Creative competency. Seeing creative thinking as a competency is more powerful and, most importantly, addresses its application in the real world. It's less about expressing the skill in the classroom and more about how you use and modify those skills in different environments.
Reluctant Creativity. When the pandemic hit, teachers across the grades were thrown into challenging teaching environments. The reluctant creatives who were less likely to engage creativity under normal circumstances were forced to engage to overcome many of these instructional challenges.
Resources Mentioned:
Listen to the episode with Wendy Ross
Listen to the episode with David Cropley
Listen to the episode with Frank LaBanca
Listen to the episode with Gene Letford
Listen to the episode with Caroline Brookfield
Listen to the episode with Bea Leiderman
Subscribe to our monthly newsletter!
Eager to bring more creativity into your home or classroom?
Access various creativity resources and tools & listen to more episodes of The Fueling Creativity in Education Podcast by visiting www.CreativityandEducation.com.
What to learn more about Design Thinking in Education?
Do you want to build a sustained culture of innovation and creativity at your school? Visit WorwoodClassroom.com to learn how Design Thinking can promote teacher creativity and support professional growth in the classroom.
You can also find The Fueling Creativity Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, and PodBean! Make sure to rate, review, and share the podcast if you enjoy it!