Fueling Creativity in Education

How does creativity play a role in problem-solving? In this episode of the Fueling Creativity in Education podcast, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood welcome Dr. Teresa Lawrence, who is recognized as the subject matter expert on the integration of Creative Problem Solving (CPS) into project management.
Listen to how educators and school administrators can use creativity in their leadership roles. While detailing this, Teresa highlights her strategies and frameworks for teaching the integration of creativity and creative problem-solving in schools. 
 
Plus, the trio discusses deliberate approaches to the creative problem-solving process, how to use creativity to build trust and get faculty buy-in to school initiatives, and how to ensure every person feels their voice is heard and acknowledged throughout the problem-solving and decision-making processes.
 
“My goal in working with school leaders is to allow them to manage challenges better with intentional and active inclusion of all voices.” – Teresa Lawrence
 
Teresa’s Tips for Teachers and Parents:
A little bit of creativity is better than no creativity. 
Ask your administrators: What are you working on to be better at your craft?
Ask your students: How am I doing? 
 
Recommended Resources:
Listen to the episode with Dr. Edward Clapp
 
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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!
 
About Teresa Lawrence, PhD, PMP, CSM:
Teresa is recognized as the subject matter expert on the integration of Creative Problem Solving into project management. She is a previous Superintendent of Schools and is currently fulltime faculty in the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo. In 2016, Teresa established International Deliverables, LLC, a certified New York State Women Business Enterprise (WBE). Teresa helps individuals, teams and organizations innovate and implement solutions that build organizational capacity and ensure value realization. International Deliverables, LLC, was a 2019 Small Business Administration Home-based Business Award recipient. Since 2017, over 80K individuals have been trained by Teresa or have participated in a session she facilitated. 
 
Connect with her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drteresalawrence 
Follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drtlawrence 

Creativity doesn’t just happen in the arts… it can happen anywhere! In this episode of the Fueling Creativity in Education podcast, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood welcome Vincent Andrews, a Humanities Instructor, high school art teacher, and creativity/life coach who’s passionate about identifying creative aptitude within specific domains and understanding the relationship between creative confidence and educational/training structures.
 
Listen in to hear how the humanities transformed Vincent’s outlook on life and learn his unique approach to cultivating creativity in an art-centric classroom, as well as other domains that are more content-driven. He then details how to use incubation in the creative process to encourage students to solve problems and use their creativity each and every day.
 
“You don’t even need fine arts to cultivate creativity. There’s so many powerful things we can do and we can really alter the way that we think and develop our students moving into the future.”  – Vincent Andrews
 
Plus, he speaks on the specific experiences that are critical to cultivating creativity in education and how teachers can begin to prioritize and grow their own creativity.
 
Vincent’s Tips for Teachers and Parents:
Dive deep into what creativity actually is. There are so many resources out there that you can reference and incorporate into your curriculums!
Look into your lesson plans and see how you can implement creative processes each day, not just once in a blue moon.
Creativity doesn’t just happen in the arts. Show your kids what creativity means and how they can use it on a daily basis in any environment. 
 
Recommended Resources:
Listen to the episode with Albert Schneider
Listen to the episode with Dr. Marta D. Ockuly
 
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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!
 
About Vincent Andrews:
Vincent Andrews works primarily as a Humanities Instructor and high school art teacher. He also is a creativity/life coach working with individuals to reach their individual goals. Vincent is extremely interested in cultivating creativity in education and organizations and his research is focused on identifying creative aptitude within specific domains, in addition to understanding the relationship between prevalent educational/training structures and the creative confidence of its participants that ensues as a result of these structures. 
 
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Kicking off Season 5 of the Fueling Creativity in Education podcast, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood welcome Dr. Edward P. Clapp, a Principal Investigator at Project Zero. Edward explores creativity and innovation, design and maker-centered learning, contemporary approaches to arts teaching and learning, and diversity, equity, and inclusion in education.
Listen in as Edward shines a light on the power of participatory creativity, how to overcome the eight crises of creativity in education, and how to use “a biography of an idea” to tell the story behind an idea. He also discusses why it’s beneficial to remove individualism, or the ego, from the participatory creative process and specific strategies teachers can use to facilitate participatory creativity and collaboration in the classroom.
 
“The way that I define participatory creativity is uniquely contributing to the development of creative ideas within a particular social and cultural setting.”  – Dr. Edward P. Clapp
 
Plus, you’ll gain insight into how to introduce access and equity to the creative classroom, how to overcome the potential pitfalls of participatory creativity, and when to push students beyond their comfort zone as opposed to just letting them be their best selves in the classroom.
Recommended Resources:
Project Zero
Listen to the episode with Michael Hanchett Hanson
Don’t call it collaboration! On ResearchGate
Participatory Creativity by Edward P. Clapp
 
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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!
 
About Dr. Edward P. Clapp:
Edward P. Clapp, Ed.D. is a Principal Investigator at Project Zero interested in exploring creativity and innovation, design and maker-centered learning, contemporary approaches to arts teaching and learning, and diversity, equity, and inclusion in education. In addition to his work as a researcher, Edward is also a Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Edward’s most recent books include Participatory Creativity: Introducing Access and Equity to the Creative Classroom (Routledge, 2016) and Maker-Centered Learning: Empowering Young People to Shape their Worlds (with Jessica Ross, Jennifer Oxman Ryan, and Shari Tishman, Jossey-Bass, 2016).
 
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In this introductory episode, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood offer a summary of season five, which includes a collection of exceptional educators, administrators, and creativity researchers, as well as a subtle change to the format of the show.
 
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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!

What were the biggest lessons learned during the last five episodes in Season 4 of the Fueling Creativity in Education podcast? In this final debrief, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood sit down and reflect on episodes that discussed imagination, play, innovation, navigating failure, implementing change within a system, and being a good ancestor.
 
Do you have a topic that we haven’t covered yet? Let us know! Email us at questions@fuelingcreativity.com.
 
Lessons Learned from the Last Five Episodes of Season 4 of Fueling Creativity in Education:
From Dr. Victoria Waller’s episode: Thinking and making with your hands is a powerful form of learning that goes beyond learning through cognition and reading. Spark interest in children through making. Every child has an interest, and it’s a good idea for teachers and parents to stay connected and communicative to stay aware of those interests.
From Zviko Kanyoka’s episode: Play is such an important tool that we all utilize to imagine new worlds, ideas, and solutions. Play allows us to practice what it’s like to be in the world and can help children imagine and design a better future regarding citizenship.
From Michael Hanchett Hanson’s episode: Everything has a history, including us. How might we go about being a good ancestor and leaving the world a better place for future generations? We can certainly use creativity to do this. There are values and behaviors we promote in our children, so we should assume that through this, we’re also shaping how our children are going to teach their children, and so on.
From Albert Schneider’s episode: We rarely start with a blank canvas. How we build on each other’s ideas determines the innovation and exchange of ideas we can achieve as humans. Real world creativity is all about our interactions with other people.
From Laura McBain and Ron Beghetto’s episode: There’s a difference between mistakes and failures. Mistakes happen when you’re by yourself and failures happen socially, where others might see. Whether a mistake or failure has happened to you, you experience a level of emotional vulnerability. The higher the vulnerability you feel, the more you’re impacted by the failure/mistake.
From Michael Hanchett Hanson’s episode: Everyone can relate to encountering problems while trying to implement change within a system. We have to be mindful of the systems in place when attempting to create change, like bringing creativity into the classroom. Aim for small changes because small changes can create huge impacts for 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!
 
 
Episodes Debriefed:
Creating Success for Children with Learning Differences with Dr. Victoria Waller
Creativity is about Change in the System with Michael Hanchett Hanson
An Industry Perspective of Creativity with Albert Schneider
Using Play and Imagination to Engage Active Citizenship with Zviko Kanyoka
My Favorite Failure with Ron Beghetto and Laura McBain
 
Other Episodes Mentioned:
Listen to the episode with Dr. Vlad Glaveanu
Listen to the episode with Jonathan Plucker

Coming up with ways to spark creativity in the classroom takes time, but it’s so worth the time spent! In this episode of the Fueling Creativity in Education podcast, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood welcome Dr. Victoria Waller, an award-winning reading specialist and educational therapist who’s been helping children with reading and learning differences for the past 40 years. Victoria is also the author of Yes! Your Child Can: Creating Success for Children with Learning Differences.
 
Listen in as Victoria highlights creative techniques teachers can use to help students who “don’t enjoy learning.” She speaks on the valuable relationship between parent-led learning and teacher-led learning, along with how to engage children in learning activities that empower confidence in them.
Plus, Victoria gives advice to educators who want to inspire creativity in students when they themselves don’t feel creative. She also gives insight into strategies you can use to spark interest in high school students when learning about topics they aren’t easily engaged in.
 
“Children with differences are geniuses of our time.” – Dr. Victoria Waller
 
Is interest the pathway to passion? How do you know when a child is interested in something? Are you a frustrated parent who’s feeling unsure about your child’s future? Tune in to hear Victoria’s candid answers and advice!
 
Victoria’s Tips for Teachers and Parents: 
1. Give children the freedom to choose the projects they want to do.
2. Find out what your children’s strengths are.
3. Do your own research, but also show your kids how to do their own research.
 
Recommended Resources:
Yes! Your Child Can: Creating Success for Children with Learning Differences 
The Week Junior Magazine
 Listen to the episode with Scott Barry Kaufman
 
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. 
 
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!
 
About Dr. Victoria E. Waller:
Victoria holds a B.S in Education from Wayne State University, an M.Ed., as a certified reading specialist, and an Ed.D. focusing on reading and learning differences from the University of Cincinnati. She has been awarded the University of Cincinnati’s Distinguished Alumna College of Education Award, was one of three finalists for the L.A. Music Center’s Bravo Award for Outstanding Teaching, and was named the Local Hero in the L.A. Times for my Printer Pal Program, connecting students with nursing home occupants.
 
Her articles on creative reading and writing projects for children have been widely viewed on U.C.L.A.’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior website, and the award-winning Grandparentslink.com. Victoria has spoken about learning differences in children to many groups all over the United States. 
 
Visit Victoria’s website
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Buy her book, Yes! Your Child Can

Have you ever heard of the participatory framework of creativity? 
 
In this episode of the Fueling Creativity in Education podcast, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood welcome Dr. Michael Hanchett Hanson, a developmental psychologist, author, and leader of the Participatory Creativity Lab. Among many other notable roles, Michael is one of the leading advocates for the participatory framework of creativity, emphasizing the diversity of roles people take up as participants in change.
 
Listen in to hear Michael break down the participatory framework of creativity and how it can be applied to educational environments and maker spaces. He highlights how the participatory framework of creativity fosters a continual creative process in a child’s day-to-day life and helps students become aware of the creative processes happening in their classroom. 
 
“Once you make this slight shift in how we think, there are really broad and deep implications… The core question implied by the idea of creativity shifts.” – Michael Hanchett Hanson
 
Michael also sheds light on a few ways to support teachers’ creativity, then shares what he learned from writing his new book, “Creativity and Improvised Educations: Case Studies for Understanding Impact and Implications”.
 
Michael’s Tips for Teachers and Parents: 
Think about it as creativity in the service of good education, not education to produce creative people. If people are well educated and deeply engaged in a domain, they will have ideas.
The combination of formal, traditional education and self-directed learning is different in each case, but both are absolutely necessary.
Really good education is understanding the deep questions that drive domains of knowledge.
 
Recommended Resources:
Learn more about Participatory Creativity Lab
Creativity and Improvised Educations by Michael Hanchett Hanson
Listen to the episode with Dr. Vlad GlaveanuListen to the episode with Jonathan Plucker
Listen to the episode with David Cropley
 
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. 
 
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!
 
About Michael Hanchett Hanson:
Michael Hanchett Hanson is a developmental psychologist; Director of the Masters Concentration in Creativity and Cognition at Teachers College, Columbia University; leader of the Participatory Creativity Lab (www.participatorycreativitylab.org); and a founding board member and Secretary of the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation (ISSCI). 
 
Michael is one of the leading advocates for the participatory framework of creativity, which emphasizes the diversity of roles people take up as participants in change. He has written on the history of the construct of creativity within psychology; creativity in education; the ideological uses of the construct; ironic thought patterns as a creative heuristic, and creative practices in the construction of the self. His most recent book, “Creativity and Improvised Educations: Case Studies for Understanding Impact and Implications”, looks at case studies of creative work across a variety of domains and what these cases can teach us about the roles of education in lifelong creative development.
 
Connect with Michael on LinkedIn
Buy his book, Creativity and Improvised Educations 
 

The business world is paving the way for future creativity in education. Want to learn how? Tune in to this episode of Fueling Creativity in Education as Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood welcome Albert Schneider. Albert is the Managing Principal at Aschneider Consulting LLC. and has an extensive background working for IBM and in the education field. 
 
Listen in to learn how Albert defines creativity from a corporate perspective and breaks down the specific skills that will be needed for creativity in the future. He shares his thoughts on how creativity and creative thinking can be taught and the important role of inclusivity and diversity of thought in facilitating creative environments. Albert also speaks on the value in collaborating disciplines (school subjects) as well as his perspective of the benefits of public/private partnerships, like IBM’s P-TECH internship program.
 
“What I look for is how do we bring more thinking, more different thinking, constructive thinking? And often, you get that from different perspectives.”  – Albert Schneider
 
Albert’s Tips for Teachers and Parents: 
You need to be inclusive. Find a way to reach out to every single student.
Be positive from the perspective of encouragement. Not everything is right, but show them how they can do better.
Give students a framework and a space where they can fail. Most things are perfected only after multiple failures.
 
Recommended Resources:
Listen to the episode with Jonathan Plucker
 
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. 
 
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!
 
About Albert Schneider:
Albert Schneider is the managing Principal at Aschneider Consulting LLC.  Primary areas of expertise include global I/T infrastructure management including cyber-security, business transformation enable-ment, and new ways of working.  Other areas of interest are mentoring, volunteering, STREAM education, and just opened a restaurant www.charandlemon.com .
Mr. Schneider currently works for LHC Group, a leading homecare and hospice company, where he is a contractor, leading enterprise-wide projects.   
Mr. Schneider joined IBM in 1979 as a computer operator and from 1982 to 1985 became a computer programmer in PL/1 (System 370) and RPG3 (System 38).
From 1986 to 1993, Mr. Schneider was in sales and marketing as a systems engineer, general client representative, and a marketing specialist.
From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Schneider was Program Director of worldwide I/T strategy.
From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Schneider was Program Director of Global Client Care.
In 2000, Mr. Schneider was executive assistant to IBM's CIO and VP, Business Transformation.
From 2001 to 2007, Mr. Schneider was the Director of Information Technology and Business Transformation Executive for IBM Research.
From 2008 to 2012, Mr. Schneider was Director, Service Delivery and Transformation Programs within Global Technology Services for IBM.