All participants add their ideas, inspired by virtual events held around the world by local organizers in each city. The city with the most ideas will receive the award for the most creative city.
1. Students
2. Parents
3. Pk-16 Educational Institutions
Creativity is a skill highly desired in most educational settings. The creative thinking skills, however, are not deeply embedded into the formal definitions of school "success" in things like student, school, or district report cards. Student transcripts for consideration into university level programs typically focus on success or proficiency in "mastering" predetermined levels of content knowledge. Only in specialized areas described as “The Arts” do you often see more formal appreciation and acknowledgment of the creative thinking skills as first layer criteria for feedback and growth.
I have spent decades working with educational institutions on adopting a new mindset around what school success looks like for all students. The consistent and persistent variable that halts all good ideas- grades and success measures that lead to secondary university placements. While many will share in the frustration that our schools are not measuring the right things, it still shapes the way teachers, parents, and schools make sense of their world. It is so normalized that it is a creative killer in us all.
My idea is to create community networks of school, parent, university, community, and credentialing agents to develop a revised reporting system that leads with the creative thinking skills first, content mastery second. These networks would be the incubators or the soil for growing new public mindsets on "success" in schools. The development of revised reporting systems and acceptance criteria would be the aim.
Once there are examples and case studies, the ideas generated can be shared broadly. These incubators would help catalyze and advance normalizing this success mindset in our social world.
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