Fueling Creativity
By Season
The Fueling Creativity in Education Podcast began with a format of 10 interviews and two debriefs each season, and has since expanded to 12 episodes, including four debriefs and a special feature connecting insights to emerging scholarly research. Each season typically introduces something new to the show—whether it’s a fresh format, new voices, or a theme relevant to teaching creativity and creative teaching. Through this evolution, co-hosts Matthew Worwood and Cyndi Burnett remain committed to bridging creativity research with classroom practice.
This page is dedicated to episodes in Season 11
Season 11
Season 11 of the Fueling Creativity in Education Podcast takes a bold step into the world of alternative schooling and education policy. We’re diving into timely conversations about micro schools, school vouchers, and the systemic challenges that shape what we prioritize in classrooms. Guests include Dr. Henry M. Smith, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education under President Clinton, who discusses equity and creativity in public schooling, and David Richards, who explores how communities can design micro schools tailored to their values.
Alongside these policy-focused dialogues, we continue our tradition of featuring world-class creativity researchers such as Dr. Keith Sawyer, whose work highlights collaboration, innovation, and the art of “learning to see.” Plus, for the first time, every episode of Season 11 is produced in video format, expanding how educators and emerging scholars can engage with the show.
Teaching the Person First: Lessons from 2025 & Goals for 2026
Season 11 | Episode 14 Teaching the Person First: Lessons from 2025 & Goals for 2026“So if you're sitting there listening and you think you haven't had a conversation about creativity education and this, then please let us know. So this is your call to action. And...
Alternative Schooling in Focus: What Works, What Doesn’t, with Jimmy Wilson
Season 11, Episode 13 Alternative Schooling in Focus: What Works, What Doesn’t"When you have diverse people thinking diverse things. When you have an engineering focused student in a arts program or an English program with many Arts minded students, they tend to...
Debrief 11 (4): Personifying AI, Deliberate Creativity, and the Power of Playful Learning
Season 11 | Debrief 4 Personifying AI, Deliberate Creativity, and the Power of Playful Learning“And I think for me, it is much more of a tool than a person. Although I do, I will say that I really appreciate when I'm talking to it and I ask questions and I keep asking...
World Building in Education: Game-Based Learning with Stephen Slota & Trent Hergenrader
Season 11, Episode 12 World Building in Education: Game-Based Learning" I really took that to heart. At the same time, two of my former professors, Roger Travis and Michael Young, both of whom were at the University of Connecticut, had just started something called...
Teaching Creativity through Innovationish Thinking
Season 11, Episode 11 Teaching Creativity through Innovationish Thinking"I think creativity is what underlies our ability to do innovation. Innovation is, I've heard literally thousands of definitions asking that question to a room of people. And almost all of them, I...
Can AI Truly Support Student Creativity
Season 11, Episode 10 Can AI Truly Support Student Creativity"And that's one of the big part of the future of AI and divergent thinking. In fact, will people tend to be more fluent, having more ideas, but will they tend to be less original? Will they take a bit less...
Advancing Creativity: Tech Tools, Gifted Ed, and Convergence
Season 11 | Debrief 3 Advancing Creativity: Tech Tools, Gifted Ed, and Convergence“In high school level because, you know, for some students, they don't have that interest and we could be fostering their potential in other areas. So in the case of your son, who loves...
Teaching Creativity for the Future of Work with Roni Reiter-Palmon
Season 11, Episode 9 Teaching Creativity for the Future of Work"So when we talk about problem identification construction, we really are talking about that phase that precedes the idea generation. So a lot of people think about idea generation as sort of that core of...
The Freedom to Design: Repurposing Technology for Creative Teaching with Punya Mishra
Season 11, Episode 8 The Freedom to Design: Repurposing Technology for Creative Teaching"You know that as a teacher in a space, you might know the research, you might know this, but you also know that the act of creating an experience for your learners is more than...
The Future of Gifted Education: Supporting Exceptional Learners in Today’s Schools
Season 11, Episode 7 The Future of Gifted Education: Supporting Exceptional Learners in Today’s Schools" At any grade level, in any subject area, there's just going to be a big range. And so gifted education is really, at its core, an effort to try to provide supports...
Microschools and Community: Rethinking Education Together
Season 11, Episode 6 Microschools and Community: Rethinking Education Together "So you think about like a homeschool parent that's in adding a few kids from down the street and you got five kids in your living room, you are considered a microschool. " - David...
How Do We Measure Creativity? Rethinking Assessment in Education with Selcuk Acar
Season 11, Episode 5 How Do We Measure Creativity? Rethinking Assessment in Education"Creativity is multifaceted and complex. So I think by following either of those approaches, and ideally both of those approaches first, you can use creative assessment principles as...
Imaginative, Empathetic Classrooms for Teaching Creativity
Season 11, Episode 4 Imaginative, Empathetic Classrooms for Teaching Creativity "There's this splatter painting on this rollpaper. And it's just nobody is working on what I had outlined. Not one person. They're all working on this huge, gigantic mural." - Jason...
Teaching Creativity as a Process of Learning to See
Season 11, Episode 3 Teaching Creativity as a Process of Learning to See"Because once you start engaging in that creative process, it's a wandering and iterative process, and something will emerge that is better than what you could have thought of at the beginning....
Creative Teaching Through Writing: Building Classroom Community
Season 11, Episode 2 Creative Teaching Through Writing: Building Classroom Community"So I really like encouraging kids to kind of connect with nature. One of the things that we actually did on Earth Day this year, and it might be part like, I'm. My birthday is...
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