A weekly collection of education-related news from around the web.

Topic: creativity

    • Teacher Magazine
    • 10/16/24
    “Although historically associated with a more inquiry-based approach, this article focuses on the development of creativity as part of a knowledge-rich curriculum. It describes the role of subject-specific knowledge in the development of creative expertise and highlights effective strategies for nurturing creativity with specific examples from English, Science and Technology, and Creative Arts.”

ASSESSMENT

ATHENA

BEST

CHARACTER

COLLABORATION

CREATIVITY

CURRICULUM

DIVERSITY

DIVERSITY/INCLUSION

HAPPINESS

HIGHER ED

HUMANITIES

    • Broadway News
    • 06/11/24
    “Because the “family drama” feels deeply American, Jacobs-Jenkins wanted to write his own. But he was stuck. So he reread every play he could think of that fit the genre — those by Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Horton Foote, Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson, Sam Shepard — and decided to “steal one thing from […]
    • Broadway News
    • 05/24/24
    “Adjmi writes on instinct. So much so that he didn’t initially write “Stereophonic”’s dialogue on a page; he dictated it to an assistant. “I would just start talking, and then I would have her transcribe everything I said, and then she would read it back to me and I’d say, ‘Cut that.’ ‘Put that line […]
    • Atlantic
    • 12/01/22
    • New York Times
    • 10/08/18
    “The issue isn’t the right of artists to imaginatively enter other lives. What’s being questioned is the concentration of cultural capital, and how members of the dominant class, who tend to receive more resources and broader access to the public, are rewarded for telling “difficult” stories — like those dealing with the subjugation and suffering […]
    • Brain Pickings
    • 10/12/16
    “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”

INNOVATION

LANGUAGE

LEADERSHIP

LEARNING SCIENCE

PEDAGOGY

READING/WRITING

    • Broadway News
    • 06/11/24
    “Because the “family drama” feels deeply American, Jacobs-Jenkins wanted to write his own. But he was stuck. So he reread every play he could think of that fit the genre — those by Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Horton Foote, Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson, Sam Shepard — and decided to “steal one thing from […]
    • Broadway News
    • 05/24/24
    “Adjmi writes on instinct. So much so that he didn’t initially write “Stereophonic”’s dialogue on a page; he dictated it to an assistant. “I would just start talking, and then I would have her transcribe everything I said, and then she would read it back to me and I’d say, ‘Cut that.’ ‘Put that line […]
    • Leon Furze
    • 02/19/24
    • New York Times
    • 09/09/23
    “When Groff starts something new, she writes it out longhand in large spiral notebooks. After she completes a first draft, she puts it in a bankers box — and never reads it again. Then she’ll start the book over, still in longhand, working from memory. The idea is that this way, only the best, most […]
    • Slate
    • 02/14/20
    “Whenever I got into a new band or played a new game or watched a new movie, I still looked it up on TV Tropes. I had to understand it—and seeing the same tropes appearing over and over again made me realize that I was holding myself to an impossible standard. Nothing is original. Every […]

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Every week I send out articles I encounter from around the web. Subject matter ranges from hard knowledge about teaching to research about creativity and cognitive science to stories from other industries that, by analogy, inform what we do as educators. This breadth helps us see our work in new ways.

Readers include teachers, school leaders, university overseers, conference organizers, think tank workers, startup founders, nonprofit leaders, and people who are simply interested in what’s happening in education. They say it helps them keep tabs on what matters most in the conversation surrounding schools, teaching, learning, and more.

Peter Nilsson

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