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.
Engage, Connect, Create: Social Media, Games, and Music in Learning
Season 12 | Debrief 4.0 Engage, Connect, Create: Social Media, Games, and Music in Learning"So I love the idea of bringing in tabletop games or having students create tabletop games. And I think, I wouldn't say I've become a little obsessed with it, but I will tell...
From Teaching to Content Creation: Social Media in the Science Classroom
Season 12 | Episode 12 From Teaching to Content Creation: Social Media in the Science Classroom"There is a machine that is very well funded, that is responsible for good portion of bad information that is out there and the proliferation of bad information. With that...
Creative Styles in Action: A New Way to Understand Creativity in the Classroom
Season 12 | Episode 11 Creative Styles in Action: A New Way to Understand Creativity in the Classroom"It's also designed to help people to understand how their perceptions influence what they think. So do you tend to look at. The world and see distinctions or do you...
The Power of Game-Based Learning: Why Tabletop Role-Playing Games Matter
Season 12 | Episode 10 The Power of Game-Based Learning: Why Tabletop Role-Playing Games Matter"That's a classic example. Will often in positive behavior intervention systems in supports where you do good things, you get so many points, those points may be able to be...
Wonder, Engagement, and Creativity: What’s Helping—and What’s Holding Us Back
Season 12 | Debrief 3.0 Wonder, Engagement, and Creativity: What’s Helping—and What’s Holding Us Back"What if creativity and education isn't about having more resources, but seeing what's already possible? In this episode, we will unpack the idea of designing your own...
Five Years Celebrating Fueling Creativity in Education: Where have we been and where are we going
Season 12 | Special Episode Five Years Celebrating Fueling Creativity in Education: Where have we been and where are we going"But it's also been a journey of scholarship as well as all of these people that we've interviewed., We said this, how many people have had the...
Designing Wonder: Bringing Museum Experiences to School
Season 12 | Episode 9 Designing Wonder: Bringing Museum Experiences to School"I think it's like being a museum visitor that kind of inspired that experience. And I'll say it's evolved over time. My first Wonder Museum, we did like stations and the kids got a few...
Creativity or Engagement: Which Comes First
Season 12 | Episode 8 Creativity or Engagement: Which Comes First "It's not the same exact thing that everybody else is doing, and it works well. Creativity isn't just something that's new and different. Anything could technically, I guess, be new and different, but...
The Creativity Edge in Education: Funding, Priorities, and Training
Season 12 | Episode 7 The Creativity Edge in Education: Funding, Priorities, and Training"The more opportunity you have for creativity to actually be leveraged. Because as we get to know these new workforce skills that are coming out, we wanna prepare our students for...
No Revolution Required: Creativity Is Already Here
Season 12 | Debrief 2 No Revolution Required: Creativity Is Already Here"I agree with you that we really need to be thinking about these different ways in which we can use ai, and one of the things that I always think about is how can we use AI to build more creative...
Growing Creative Agency: What Helps, What Hinders, and What AI Changes
Season 12 | Episode 6 Growing Creative Agency: What Helps, What Hinders, and What AI Changes"So one such category, which seems foundational is confidence. You might call it, creative self-efficacy, which is. Dynamic task related you, you might discuss creative...
Emotion, Polarization, and the Skills of Constructive Dialogue
Season 12 | Episode 5 Emotion, Polarization, and the Skills of Constructive Dialogue"The way that we define constructive dialogue is a form of conversation. People with different perspectives seek to understand one another without abandoning their own beliefs in order...
AI on the Front Lines: Creativity, Industry, and the Classroom with James Taylor
Season 12 | Episode 4 AI on the Front Lines: Creativity, Industry, and the Classroom"The next time you go on a plane, if you have a look at, look around you, all those overhead compartments on an Airbus or a Boeing, they've been made with human and machine. Creative...
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...
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