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Research and Policy
Raising Attinment through Pupil Engagement - a report of an experiment
An action research project which took place in primary schools across Falkirk, Stirling and Clackmannanshire Councils, in partnership with the Creative Learning Networks and Hidden Giants...
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Research and Policy
Creativity and Learning: what is the connection?
A thought piece by Paul Collard, Chief Executive of Creativity, Culture and Education, that argues creative learning has a positive impact on learning and attainment because it inherently develops the executive functions of the brain...
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Research and Policy
Three Behaviors that will Grow Innovative Teamwork
Innovative teamwork depends first and foremost on the team’s ability to hold constructive conflict...
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Research and Policy
The Non-Obvious Way to Think Creatively - the Haystack Method
In his workshops, Rohit Bhargava teaches the Haystack Method...
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Research and Policy
RSA Report: Creative Public Leadership - school system leaders and system-wide innovation
A report from the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) and WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education) that asks how school system leaders can create the conditions for system-wide innovation...
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Research and Policy
Creative Blueprint: Think Pieces
Articles about education, skills and the creative and cultural industries answer 'What does the education and skills system need to look like in order for people to lead fulfilled creative lives, and for the creative and cultural industries to thrive...
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Research and Policy
RSA
The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) is an enlightenment organisation committed to finding innovative practical solutions to today’s social challenges...
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Research and Policy
Understanding How to Frame Your Creative Expertise
Again and again I see talented people with ideas they want to share – books they want to write, talks they want to give, businesses they want to launch – holding back because they think they "don't know enough" about their topic...
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Research and Policy
Creative Councils: 10 lessons for local authority innovators
NESTA publication sharing 10 lessons on how to create innovative change in local government from the Creative Councils programme: 1...
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Research and Policy
Learning: creative approaches that raise standards
An OFSTED report on how 44 schools used creative approaches to learning...
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Research and Policy
99 Percent
99% is a think tank that focuses on what happens after inspiration - researching the forces that truly push ideas forward...
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Research and Policy
Re-Imagining the Future keynote
The NCLN Annual Event in 2016 took place at the Hotel Colessio in Stirling and was entitled Re-Imagining the Future...
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Research and Policy
i-teams: The teams and funds making innovation happen in governments around the world
This NESTA report tells the stories of 20 teams, units and funds established by governments and charged with making innovation happen...
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Research and Policy
Research to support Schools of Ambition: final report
Provides an overview of the Schools for Ambition programme, which sought to enable 52 individual schools in Scotland to determine their priorities for a three-year period of transformation...
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Research and Policy
Creativity and Tackling Prejudice
Powerpoint Presentation by Stephen Bullock, Development Officer for Creativity with Education Scotland, delivered to the Education Scotland & Renfrewshire Council national event: Tackling Prejudiced based bullying & Promoting Equality and Diversity It argues that the creativity skills, especially open-mindedness, are central to tackling prejudice and prejudice based bullying and are a means of embedding this agenda across the curriculum and challenging prejudice at its root, in the habits of mind of the individual...
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Research and Policy
Creative Quarter
IRISS site exploring creativity and its application to a Social Care setting...
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Research and Policy
Scotland 2030: Leadership in EducationScotland’s Futures Forum / Goodison Group in Scotland Forum De
The Futures Forum and the Goodison Group in Scotland continued their exploration of schooling and learning in the future with a debate looking at the role of leadership, particularly leadership of change...
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Research and Policy
Power to Create presentation from Jamie Cooke, Head of RSA Scotland
An outline of the work of and opportunities provided by RSA Scotland, including Pupil Design Awards, Catalytic Teaching, Creative Educators etc...
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Research and Policy
Are we offering a creative curriculum? - Programme
Programme of presentations, performances and activities at the National Creative Learning Network annual event: Are We Offering a Creative Curriculum...
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Research and Policy
Buchanan Institute - Scotland's only student-led think tank
The network is entirely politically independent and serves to enable collaboration between student think tanks across the globe...