Some days, writing a blog is a huge step towards organizing your thoughts. Today is that day regarding creativity. This is one to print out and hang somewhere, as I plan the Innovative Arts curriculum for next year.

Ideally, a student learning all about creativity should be:

• ideating daily
• seeing the creative process in multiple times and ways
• doing one-day-builds as teams, with a framework to follow (at least at first)
• planning larger projects or leading their own one-day-builds
• seeing the context for these exercises and knowing why they’re ‘taking the reps’
• exploring materials or topics with creativity in mind
• relating back to the topic something they saw in a different context
• Responding to open-ended prompts
• Owning the class environment
• Ideating about their schoolwork for other subjects
• Explaining the process of creativity
• Free-form brainstorming
• Storytelling as beginning or end of ideation session
• Using empathy
• Using the internet to jump-start ideas
• practicing both alone and together
• Seeing opportunity in mistakes and value in failure