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3 ways to strategically incorporate creativity in schools

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There are currently 65 schools participating in the art-integration program in a system of over 200 schools. To assist in this effort, we looked at many professional learning programs, and all of the models have teacher engagement in a hands-on multidisciplinary approach. Take a School-by-School Approach.

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6 Key Principles That Make Finnish Education a Success

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A curriculum reform adopted by the Finnish National Agency for Education in 2016 set key goals that I think are clear reflections of the Finnish approach to education: enhancing pupil participation, increasing the meaningfulness of learning and enabling every pupil to feel successful in their academic and social-emotional learning.

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Why Every Student Deserves a Robust Arts Education

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After 20 years teaching music, what I’ve learned is that the arts are essential because humans are inherently creative beings and must be given opportunities to develop their creativity in order to fully understand themselves and participate in a pluralistic society. They choose to be part of an intentional community that values the arts.

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Designing Classrooms Fit for Early Learners

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As an education design director working with a multidisciplinary design team that regularly partners with early childhood programs to upgrade their existing spaces or create new ones, I've seen the power of leveraging design elements for learning. Classroom walls can support different activities and provide children agency to engage.

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Bridging the School-to-Business Gap: What Public Schools Can Learn From Industry

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Project management and rapid prototyping dominates business and many of our most-sought after jobs require collaboration and multidisciplinary, higher-order thinking. Instead teachers participate in project-based learning at the same time as the student.

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5 High-Presence Teaching Tactics for Active Online Learning

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For many university students, participating in an online math course brings about the distressing emotions of a monumental chore. She joined Purdue University Global (PG) in 2009 as an adjunct, and in 2014, became full time for the Mathematics Department within the School of Multidisciplinary and Professional Studies.

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'A Better Future is Possible': IDEO’s Sandy Speicher on Design Thinking in Schools

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IDEO has always historically put together multidisciplinary teams of different types of designers—people who have a background in architecture, people in graphic design, people who do anthropology and research. There are patterns I’m seeing now, both that we’ve participated in and others from the sector.