LISTEN & LEARN: Start Small
Season 6 | Listen & Learn Start Small What you’re doing, how are you typically getting students to express their understanding of the material that you’ve just given them? And instead of maybe doing it in a way you’ve done it, every single week,...
LISTEN & LEARN: Be Open
Season 6 | Listen & Learn Be Open “Be open to new ports that you might be willing to sail to throughout the course of your semester.Encourage dissent in your classroom—respectful dissent—and model openness.” – Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman Spotify Apple Podcasts...
Initiate Discussions on Creativity
Season 6 | Listen & Learn Initiate Discussions on Creativity “Before we even stress about the curriculum I would like to share the tip of the language, I say language because we probably unconsciously say certain things in especially our young ones pick up really...
Plan for Creativity
Season 6 | Listen & Learn Plan for Creativity “creativity emerges when there’s some form of framework it is important to learn how to design activities that really provide that framework, and then within that framework children have freedom to complete the...
Build Relationships
Action 4 Build Relationships from The Future Creative: 10 Actions for Fueling Creativity in Education by Matthew Worwood and Cyndi Burnett. Scanned the QR code from the book? You’re in the right place. Creativity doesn’t happen in isolation. Build Relationships...
LISTEN & LEARN: Give Choice
Season 6 | Listen & Learn Give Choice “Does it really make a difference if they use markers? Does it really make a difference if they sit at their desks? Does it make a difference if they work with their best friend? Where are the areas that you can give up a...
LISTEN & LEARN: Nurture Creative Potential
Season 6 | Listen & Learn Nurture Creative Potential “I think the depth is where you really get in to problem solving and a discipline, and so I think that sort of the beauty of depth, its fun to tinker around and play with something but when you really go deep...
LISTEN & LEARN: Model Creative Behavior
Season 6 | Listen & Learn Model Creative Behavior “We have to recognize that as educators in those moments, the first thing that I feel at least is the pressure of time, you’ve got an hour and 15 minutes to deliver that lesson and you kinda need this thing...
LISTEN & LEARN: Teach Failure
Season 6 | Listen & Learn Teach Failure “It is really tough and I struggle with it myself, and I also remind myself that to live in a creed of life is really to fail, and if you don’t fail then you’re really not taking big enough risk and at the same...
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.