SEASON 1: Introducing The Fueling Creativity Podcast
Season 1 Introducing The Fueling Creativity Podcast “We’ll be talking about creativity topics and how they apply to the field of education. We’ll be speaking with scholars, educators, and resident experts about their work, challenges they face, and digging deeper to...
Teaching Creativity in the Classroom: Evidence Based Practices
Season 1, Episode 1 Teaching Creativity in the Classroom “You have to be an advocate for creativity outside of your classroom to do it in your classroom. You can close your door and you can do what you want to do, which is what a lot of teachers want to do, but you...
A Scholarly Journey to Redefining Creativity with Dr. Marta Ockuly
Season 1, Episode 2 A Scholarly Journey to Redefining Creativity “I really never looked at creativity as something to be evaluated by certain criteria. I looked at it as a process to test and put out in the world and enjoy or explain something phenomenally. It’s a...
Looking Ahead to Creativity and Innovation Week with Dr. Jim Friedman
Season 1, Episode 3 Looking Ahead to Creativity and Innovation Week “Creativity is the thinking part and innovation is the doing part. So, people have creative thoughts all the time. How do we empower them to actually take action and move it forward?” – Dr. Jim...
Teachers as Designers: A conversation with IBM designer, KC Lathrop
Season 1, Episode 4 Teachers as Designers: A Conversation with IBM Designer “I kind of think about creativity in support your mental health. I think it’s almost the same idea as going to the gym every day for your physical health. To me, maintaining a creative...
Creativity in Context: Mohammad Issa, founder of the Creativity Lab, Palestine
Season 1, Episode 10 Creativity in Context: Mohammad Issa, Found of the Creativity Lab, Palestine “If we are talking about creativity, education, innovation, and entrepreneurship as pillars in order to build good citizens who could contribute effectively to the...
Juliet Desailly Reflects on Standards and the Impact on Teaching for Creativity
Season 1, Episode 13 Juliet Desailly Reflects on Standards and The Impact on Teaching for Creativity “One of the things I think is most illuminating is… that where there is difficulty, where there is challenge, it actually makes people be more creative in order to...
Making a commitment to Professional Learning with Leon Tynes
Season 2, Episode 3 Making a Commitment to Professional Learning “The goal is not retirement. The goal is elevating students to be those next professionals or those game changers that basically deal with these issues on the planet that we have going on right now,...
How STEM Education can help students to think for tomorrow
Season 2, Episode 5 How STEM can help students to think for tomorrow Instead of going, “How are we going to solve radiation in space?” You know, really hard science… What we do to flip that instead is… “Okay, if humans are going to Mars, they’re going to be away...
Matthew Worwood
Co-Host
TMatthew Worwood is an education consultant and full-time faculty member at the University of Connecticut's Digital Media and Design Department. His research interests focus on Teacher Creativity, Co-Creativity with Generative AI, and Design Thinking.
Cyndi Burnett
Co-Host
Dr. Cyndi Burnett is the Vice-President at Curiosity 2 Create. She taught deliberate creativity at the Center for Applied Imagination at SUNY Buffalo State University for 20 years. She is the author of four books on creativity in education and co-founder of the creative thinking network.