1. Exploring Creative Social Intelligence PRESENTERS: Inez S. Bush + Asma Kazmi The Imaginative Reinvention of Education Grand Arts in Kansas City, MO February 25 and 26, 2011

2. Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Albert Einstein, 1879-1955 Physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics

3. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” – Albert Einstein, 1879-1955 Physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics

4. “It’s your imagination… everyone’s got one, you’ve just got to find it.” – 10 year old student, 2003

5. A recent IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs identified Creativity as the No. 1 leadership competency of the future. The Creativity Crisis, Newsweek, July 10, 2010

6. Q: Are we consistently nurturing and developing creativity through our current educational practices?

7. The three key motivators for humans are autonomy, mastery and purpose. – Daniel H. Pink

8. autonomy: compliant vs. engaged

9. Q: While we strive for students to be engaged, how often does the concept of teacher and administrator engagement get addressed?

10. TED.com

11. Q: What if schools carved out time for “non-commissioned” work, for autonomy?

12. mastery: Have you ever experienced being so focused and challenged that you lost track of time?

13. Flow is the mental state in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. – Conceived by Mihály Csíkszentmiháyi, Professor of Psychology and Management and founding Co-Director of the Quality of Life Research

14. flow

16. Q: How often do we provide students the opportunity to access flow? How often do we provide teachers & principals with that same opportunity?

17. The element is the place where the things you love to do and the things you are good at come together. – Sir Ken Robinson

18. Q: What happens to someone who never has the opportunity to discover their element?

19. educe: to draw forth from within

20. Q: Is there more value in asking questions or learning answers? What if the educational system’s focus was on the process of inquiry and collaborative discovery?

21. Reggio Emilia

23. purpose: how vs. why

24. Grace Living Center

27. shared purpose

28. knowledge-as-participation dialogue vs. knowledge-as-substance

29. Debating Through the Arts: a creative exchange for social change

30. debate caucus collaborate create present Debating Through the Arts: a creative exchange for social change

40. Thank you. Inez S. Bush inez@gramercypartners.biz Asma Kazmi asma@asmakazmi.com asma@asmakazmi.com