the FUELING CREATIVITY in education podcast
Bridging the science of creativity with the art of teaching
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about the pod
Fueling Creativity in Education bridges the gap between the science of creativity and classroom practice, with a focus on both creative teaching and teaching creativity. Since launching during the pandemic, we’ve interviewed over 100 leading researchers, educators, and administrators—including renowned figures like Teresa Amabile, Robert Sternberg, Howard Gardner, and Ruth Richards.
Our episodes are designed for intellectually curious educators and emerging scholars, offering practical insights and evidence-based strategies to support creative teaching practices and the effective teaching of creativity across diverse learning environments.
Ranked in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally, we release new episodes every Tuesday at 6:00 AM (EST), with regular seasons aligned to the academic calendar and special episodes in between. Follow us on your favorite platform and join the ongoing conversation about creativity in education!
Featured Episodes
Dr. Teresa Amabile
Listen in as Dr. Teresa Amabile, a world-renowned expert in creativity research, shares fascinating insights from her impressive 50-year career, discussing her journey and the many chapters of her groundbreaking work. The conversation begins into her early interests in childhood creativity, sparked during her time in kindergarten, and how these experiences led her to study motivation and its effects on creativity. Teresa emphasizes the importance of intrinsic motivation and reflects on how extrinsic factors can sometimes support creative teaching and teaching creativity.
Season 10, Special Episode | 30 min
Dr. Howard Gardner
Listen in as Dr. Gardner shares his perspective of creativity and how it’s changed throughout his career in education and research. He highlights the fascinating insights he learned from writing “Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Ghandi”. He speaks on how creativity is rewarded in educational spaces and how you can encourage kids to be creative regardless of the process, outcome, and reward.
Season 6, Special Episode | 54 min
Dr. Robert Sternberg
Renowned Dr. Robert Sternberg reflects on creativity’s evolving role over his 50-year career. He critiques standardized testing for stifling creativity and warns against “pseudo transformational creativity,” where leaders appear innovative but serve self-interests. Sternberg stresses the need for moral and civic education and explores the risks of generative AI, cautioning that overreliance could weaken critical thinking. He shares real-world cases of AI misuse in education and offers strategies for teachers to foster independent thinking, integrate values, and promote creative teaching and teaching creativity in the classroom.
Season 9, Episode 12 | 39 min
The Value of Small Wins and the Progress Principle (Double Expresso)
Season 10, Episode 13 The Value of Small Wins and the Progress Principle (Part Two) “Well, kids are going to make mistakes, and what you need is the equivalent of what we saw in some of these teams. And that is celebrating failure value, celebrating what you can learn...
Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation in the Classroom (Double Expresso)
Season 10, Episode 13 Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation in the Classroom (Part One) “I think if you can allow your children to explore and experiment with things, even if they're making monstrosities, they're learning. They're learning and they're having fun and...
Scratch and MIT’s Five Ps of Technology and Learning
Season 10, Episode 12 The Five Ps of Technology and Learning“Focus more on technology fluency. You know, our goal is not necessarily to have professional programmers, for instance, or professional web developers, but empower people so that they master enough of...
Nature Knows Best: Teaching Creativity Through Biomimicry
Season 10, Episode 11 Nature Knows Best: Teaching Creativity Through Biomimicry "And it's really this ancestral practice that we as humans have been performing since time immemorial, that the indigenous people have perfected this since the dawn of time that has become...
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We are thrilled to partner with Curiosity 2 Create as our sponsor, a company that shares our commitment to fostering creativity in education. Curiosity 2 Create empowers educators through professional development and community support, helping them integrate interactive, creative thinking approaches into their classrooms. By moving beyond traditional lecture-based methods, they help teachers create dynamic learning environments that enhance student engagement, improve academic performance, and support teacher retention. With a focus on collaborative learning and exploration, Curiosity 2 Create is transforming classrooms into spaces where students thrive through continuous engagement and growth.
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