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 12
Season 12
Season 12 of the Fueling Creativity in Education Podcast celebrates five years of podcasting and 250 published episodes, while taking a closer look at where creativity faces its greatest challenges: inside educational systems, under real-world pressures, and through the everyday choices of educators and learners. This season highlights new and timely perspectives on Teaching Creativity, including Daniel Memmert on how athletes make creative decisions under constraints and pressure, Carlos Moreno of Big Picture Learning on student agency and scalable public education models, Maciej Karwowski on creative self-belief, identity, and motivation, and Caroline Mehl from the Constructive Dialogue Institute on how meaningful dialogue nurtures empathy and creative learning.
With these conversations, Season 12 continues to explore how creativity can be nurtured, sustained, and expanded in real-world contexts, offering educators, students, and communities actionable insights to strengthen Creativity in Education where it matters most.
Creativity and the Lessons Hidden in Sports and Handwriting
Season 12 | Debrief 1 Creativity and the Lessons Hidden in Sports and Handwriting"And thinking about teaching divergent thinking to students, particularly when they're at a young age, to look at all the different ways they can do something, so it can be unexpected in...
Coaching for Creativity: What Sport Teaches Us About Thinking
Season 12 | Episode 3 Coaching for Creativity: What Sport Teaches Us About Thinking"The most important factor points are the head, the mind. So we say the matches are decided in cognitive skills. And there are several cognitive skills, and I have a framework where...
Why Handwriting Still Matters for Creative Thinking
Season 12 | Episode 2 Why Handwriting Still Matters for Creative Thinking"so I think somewhere I would venture a guess that we that the importance of handwriting that you would you might see in a parochial school where you're working on cursive you know every day and...
Building Schools Around What We Say We Value with Carlos Moreno
Season 12 | Episode 1 Building Schools Around What We Say We Value with Carlos Moreno “I'd say in a lot of ways, exposed as a professional to, to the other systems, it, it has been a trickle down effect, right? So when you have system leaders who are being held...
Season 12 Preview: Creativity, Dialogue, and the Future of Education
SEASON 12 Season 12 Preview: Creativity, Dialogue, and the Future of EducationWelcome to a new season. We're digging into creativity where it's tested most under pressure, inside systems, and in the everyday decisions educators and learners make. Join Cyndi and me as...
Follow the pod
Subscribe Today
available on your favorite podcasting platform
