TEACH YOUR STUDENTS CREATIVE SKILLS FOR THE FUTURE. NOW.
Evidence-based online professional learning experiences that equip educational leaders to innovate their existing curriculum.
Curated resources and cultivated instructional design!
The possibility is here.
You care about your students. You know their futures depend on learning how to be agile problem-solvers with creative ideas, but maybe you feel a bit confined by standards and test prep requirements, or adrift among all of the progressive approaches to 21st century learning.
WHAT
IF YOU
COULD
WHAT
IF YOU
COULD
meet standards and catalyze your students’ inventiveness, ingenuity, innovation, and imagination?
learn a new way of teaching that will fuel your students’ curiosity, confidence, and creative thinking?
apply this new way of teaching to your existing curriculum?
We’ve been pursuing those questions for over 20 years.
OUR APPROACH
The Creativity-Based Learning Series
The four-course Creativity-Based Learning (CBL) Series includes evidence-based, classroom-tested mindsets, toolsets, and skillsets. Ready to integrate into your current teaching practice! The series addresses all components of the Curiosita Creativity Fan Framework: 7 Instructional Goal Areas and 4 Instructional Elements of Creativity. Everything you need to design a classroom learning environment to teach with and for creativity.
Invigorating Professional Learning Experience
We (Rick and Patti) guide you through each course. We know how tedious some professional learning experiences can be, so we’ve designed all the courses to be interactive. Just like real teaching. Every lesson encourages active learning, social learning, self-discovery, and higher-order thinking. We also included suggestions for collaborative Professional Learning Community work.
Credentials & KINL Partnership
Curiosita Teaching in partnership with Keep Indiana Learning (KINL) of Central Indiana Education Service Center provides all coursework on a Canvas LMS platform. Upon finishing each course, you’ll receive a certificate of completion that includes the professional learning hours fulfilled from KINL.
OUR APPROACH IN DETAIL
The Creativity Fan Framework
The Creativity Fan Framework is a product of 40+ years of research and classroom-tested mindsets, toolsets, and skillsets that make creativity tangible and teachable. When you focus on the teacher Seven Instructional Goal Areas (the 7 P’s) in your classroom, you’ll free your students’ creativity. And your own.
- Person Goal – Recognize and encourage in all students the traits and behaviors associated with highly creative people.
- Process Goal – Teach creative thinking developmentally, using mindsets, toolsets, and skillsets, just like you would other subjects.
- Product Goal – Guide students to create visual and verbal products using an incremental process that encourages experimentation.
- Press Goal – Shape students’ mental and emotional internal environments, as well as their physical and social external environments, to foster creativity.
- Perception Goal – Increase students’ mental flexibility by exposing them to diverse visual and verbal perspectives. Enhance their ability to solve problems and create new designs.
- Persistence Goal – Increase student’s task commitment by mentoring them through the cyclic creative process of success and failure. Emphasize practice and effort over perfection.
- Passion Goal – Provide students with numerous opportunities to discover their strengths and interests through exploring their multiple intelligences, or what we call, multibilities.
Woven throughout the Creativity Fan Framework are Curiosita’s Four Instructional Elements of Creativity based on standard definitions of creative thinking used in psychology studies and pedagogy.
Fluency – Generating a large quantity of ideas.
Flexibility – Creating a wide range of ideas in multiple categories.
Originality – Producing unique ideas.
Elaboration – Adding detail to enrich, refine, or embellish ideas.
OUR WHY
Integrating creativity into ALL teaching and learning leads to students’ personal and professional happiness and success!
ABOUT THE SERIES
The Creativity-Based Learning Series equips you to integrate the 7 Creativity Fan Framework Instructional Goal Areas and the 4 Instructional Elements of Creativity into your existing curriculum or program – regardless of grade level or subject area. You will discover how teaching the mindsets, toolsets, and skillsets of creativity maximizes student output in all future-ready focused programs including: STEM, Design Thinking, Project-Based Learning, Problem-Based Learning, Universal Design for Learning, and Inquiry-Based Learning.
COURSE 1:
CBL INTRODUCTION & PERSON
Are you ready? In this 9 module foundational course, we dig into why it’s essential at this time in history to teach with and for creativity. You’ll come away equipped to articulate why you’re teaching the way you are to any parent, student, or colleague who asks. You’ll also experiment with using the 4 Instructional Elements of Creativity in lesson design and learn how to foster the traits of a highly creative Person in all your students—and yourself. At the end of this course you’ll be introduced to the 7 Creativity Fan Framework Instructional Goal Areas that will guide your integration of creativity into all teaching and learning.
COURSE 2:
CBL PROCESS & PRODUCT
This 9 module course is where the rubber meets the road. Step by step, you’ll learn classroom-tested toolsets and skillsets to teach creativity as a developmental Process. You’ll gain an understanding of the brain’s need for organization in order to learn, and practice using tools that support planning, sorting, and prioritizing. You’ll also master a new “Thinking Vocabulary” to stimulate a more rigorous and productive creative thinking culture in your classroom. Whether you teach science, art, English, history, geology, or “everything,” you’ll come away able to support the development of students’ creativity. Your students will gain confidence using incremental and iterative Processes to create visual and written Products. Available on KINL 2024!
COURSE 3:
CBL PRESS & PERCEPTION
Imagine a classroom where students are alert and awakened to their surroundings, and their own way of thinking and processing. We know now more than ever that students have different cognitive processing styles. We also know that physical and mental environments influence the way students learn, create, and produce new solutions. Press & Perception shows you concrete ways to change students’ mental and emotional internal environments as well as the physical and social external classroom environments so they become a Press to release students’ innate creativity. You’ll also gain toolsets and skillsets to increase their ability to approach problems with the Perception mindsets of a highly creative person.
Stay tuned! Coming in 2025!
COURSE 4:
CBL PERSISTENCE & PASSION
We know grit matters as much if not more than “innate talent” to students’ learning and fulfillment. But how do you teach persistence? Persistence & Passion equips educational leaders with strategies to strengthen students’ Persistence and discover and explore their Passions as vehicles for Project-Based, Problem-Based, or Inquiry-Based Learning and more. You’ll come away able to develop the commitment and drive students need to make their fresh ideas real as they become creative agents of change—for life.
Stay tuned! Coming in 2025!
Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives . . . most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity . . . when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow Theory
THE CREATIVITY-BASED LEARNING SERIES IS FOR YOU IF YOU WANT
- Increased student and teacher engagement.
- Schools full of dynamic, autonomous learners.
- Amplified learning as part of a community of practice.
- A flexible, self-paced online professional learning experience.
- Creative thinking, critical thinking, and product development integrated into every subject area and grade level.
- Classrooms transformed into studios where learning is designed as creative challenges and opportunities.
- Evidence-based and classroom-tested creativity mindsets, toolsets, and skillsets you can apply to your existing curriculum and learning goals. Today!
- Better outcomes from your commitment to Future-Ready 21st century programs – personalized learning enhancing communication and collaboration.
- Students eager to embrace unknown futures as creative agents of change.
Creativity-Based Learning
COURSE 1:
INTRODUCTION & PERSON
COURSE 2:
PROCESS & PRODUCT
Gain a toolbox of strategies to catalyze creative thinking and invigorate product development in all future-ready programs.
CONSULTING FOR YOUR CLASSROOMS, SCHOOLS, OR DISTRICT
As an educational administrator, we know it can be challenging to engage your teachers with professional learning. We can help you customize your approach to introducing the Creativity-Based Learning Series and provide ongoing support to help you create a personalized plan, one that fits seamlessly into the learning culture of your classrooms, schools, and district. Each course contains nine modules – ideally suited for an in-depth year-long professional learning experience. Coaching is available for schools or districts choosing this option.
