CURIOSITA BLOG
classroom escapades and curated resources
Education Creativity Conundrum: The Tipping Point
The conundrums of life are ever present. Imagine if . . . one day we can look back at these past two years as a “Tipping Point.” One that rocketed education into a new era. A place were teachers and students found personal and professional happiness and success. Here’s your chance. Now’s the time. Take a stand.
Bodacious Creativity: Helping Students Explore and Expose Their Creativity
So here’s a dilemma. How can we get students to take more intellectual and emotional risks? Bodacious in their creative thoughts. Keeping their creative thoughts hidden deep inside is a comfortable default mode. How can we get what’s on the inside – outside?
Awesome Creativity: How to Help Students Recognize and Appreciate Creativity
Initial emotional reactions to any unexpected display of creativity may bring feelings of surprise, amazement, delight, or perhaps even our favorite British expression - gobsmacked! Imagine turning a corner in the grocery story and being presented with a “smiling”...
Atlanta Educators Go Creative
There’s nothing more rewarding than working with a group of educators excited and motivated to bring creativity into the lives of their students. When we returned from our second session with Atlanta Public Schools Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) elementary...
Creative Inspirations & Explorations: 5 Ways to Jumpstart Mindsets
In Curiosita Creativity-Based Learning we talk about making creativity tangible and teachable. It begins with new mindset interactions. Listening and looking at things differently. When you ask your students to talk about creativity, do they get stuck in...
It’s a Sign: Opening the Doors of Perception
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a . . . ? Nature gives us glorious creative visions with the coming of each season. Spring is an especially enchanting display of objects that catch our eye and capture our imaginations. We took this inspiring photo as we walked through...
UN Proclamation: Creativity and Innovation Day April 21 – Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday!
Ambassador I. Rhonda King, Permanent Representative to the United Nations from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, delivered a speech to the General Assembly in support for World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21. This resolution was voted to become a UN Day of...
Screwdrivers to Magic Carpet Rides
Grandpa was in the garage working on building a dollhouse when eight-year-old granddaughter Ella walked in and asked, “Can I help?” “Sure,” he replied. “Why don’t you hand me a screwdriver?” She paused for a moment, her eyes sparkled, and she asked, “Do you want the...
