TEACH YOUR STUDENTS CREATIVE SKILLS FOR THE FUTURE. NOW.
Evidence-based online professional learning experiences that equip educational leaders to innovate their existing curriculum
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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 Series will free your students’ creativity with evidence-based, classroom-tested mindsets, toolsets, and skillsets you can integrate into what you’re already teaching. A self-paced online professional learning experience. The Creativity-Based Learning Series will give you instructional tools and a curricular framework to enhance all classroom learning including: Stem, Design Thinking, Project-Based, Problem-Based, Universal Design for Learning, and Inquiry-Based Learning.
Teachers, Not Your Same Old Professional Development
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.
Credentials
Upon finishing each course, you’ll receive a certificate of completion that includes the professional learning hours fulfilled and a micro-credential badge.
OUR APPROACH IN DETAIL
The Creativity Fan Framework
- Person – Recognize and encourage in all students the traits and behaviors associated with highly creative people.
- Process – Teach creative thinking developmentally, using mindsets, toolsets, and skillsets, just like you would other subjects.
- Product – Guide students to create visual and verbal products using an incremental process that encourages experimentation.
- Press – Shape students’ mental and emotional internal environments, as well as their physical and social external environments, to foster creativity.
- Perception – Increase students’ mental flexibility by exposing them to diverse visual and verbal perspectives. Enhance their ability to solve problems and create new designs.
- Persistence – Increase student’s task commitment by mentoring them through the cyclic creative process of success and failure. Emphasize practice and effort over perfection.
- Passion – 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.
ABOUT THE SERIES
The Creativity-Based Learning Series equips you to integrate the 7 Creativity Fan Framework Components 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
COURSE 2:
CBL PROCESS & PRODUCT
COURSE 3:
CBL PRESS & PERCEPTION
Imagine a classroom where students are awake and alert 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.
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.
PRICE: $99 per course
PURCHASE PACKAGES AVAILABLE
SAVE WHEN YOU BUY MULTIPLE COURSES FOR ALL YOUR STAFF.
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
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.
