Georgetown Public Schools Creativity, Inspiration, and Innovation Dr. Julie DeRoche, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, GPS Ms. Beth Miller, Executive Director, Creative Education Foundation DESE October 27, 2015

As Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build the youth for our future.”

Creativity and Innovation Grant 2015 2015-2016 Creativity and Innovation Grant 2015 This new state-funded, two-year competitive grant develops students’ creativity and capacity for innovation, critical to success in the 21st century economy. More specifically, this funding opportunity will support the review, design, and implementation of middle and high school curricula that promote essential skills of creativity and innovation while improving students' academic achievement and engagement.

Creativity and Innovation 2015 Course embedded K-12 ELA, science, technology, engineering, business, entrepreneurial, and math standards Developed ‘Creativity and Innovation’ focus Training with Creative Education Foundation for teachers Redesigned 9th Grade Creativity course lessons, assignments, and assessments Coordinated students’ use of new technologies and apps Developed Creativity Showcase for SY 2015

The US Department of Labor predicts that 65% of students will become adults holding jobs that don’t even exist yet, and that those jobs will be in Big Data, Nano science, 3-D printing, and advanced robotics.

"The most important leadership quality for CEO's is creativity.” According to Fast Company magazine in 2010

A recent IBM survey of 1,500 CEOs from around the world and across industries named creativity as the top skill needed to succeed in our rapidly changing world. They ranked creativity even higher than rigor, management discipline, integrity, and even vision. The Creative Being

What is Creativity? "Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual." ~ Arthur Koestler   “I define creativity as the process of having original ideas that have value.” ~ Sir Ken Robinson The definition of creativity is subjective. Therefore as a class students will come up with a shared definition so that we are all working with a common understanding. Have students write their own definition of creativity on a sticky note then put it on the wall. Make sure they include their name. Review what students have said. Have students find definitions of creativity, make sure they identify the source - put on sticky notes - put on another wall.  Have students go deeper find different definitions of creativity, make sure they identify source - put on sticky note Have students put one dot/mark on their favorite definition. Keep up the ones with the most dots/marks and remove all others. Continue to vote until there is one generally accepted definition. Create a classroom definition of creativity Then use Tagxedo or Wordle to create word clouds of the definitions.

CPS: The Learner’s Model

The Learner’s Model

Phase One: Teacher Training

Phase Two: Reframing Lessons

Phase Three: Developing Rubrics

Next Steps Creativity Showcase: November 5th Speakers: Beth Miller, CEF & Paul Reynolds, Fablevision Year II Training with Creative Education Foundation (Middle School) Developing additional coursework: Year II Coursework for High School (Incorporating Project Lead the Way) Year I Interdisciplinary Units for Middle School (Part II of Creativity and Innovation Grant)

As Michael Dell, CEO of Dell, Inc. states, More and more industry leaders are looking for and fostering creativity because we are living in a time of catalytic change and unpredictability. As Michael Dell, CEO of Dell, Inc. states, “I would place my bet on creativity.”