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Research and Policy
RSA: Giving Schools the Power to Create - Developing creative capacities in learners and teachers
A summary paper on how schools can best develop pupils’ creative capacities by the RSA...
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Research and Policy
The Top 5 Qualities of Productive Creatives (And How to Identify Them!)
How do we identify the qualities that add up to creativity...
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Research and Policy
Skills in a Nutshell
The National Parent Forum of Scotland Summary of Skills, published as part of their Curriculum for Excellence in a Nutshell series, lays out the basics behind skills across the curriculum in two sides of A4...
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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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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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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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Creative Thinkering
A psychology based blog resurrecting your natural creativity through inspiring techniques and practical examples...
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Paul Collard's slides from the Attaining Creative Solutions event
Paul Collard from Culture, Creativity and Education brought his international experience and unique interpretation of the PISA statistics to bear on the attainment and equality issue here in Scotland as part of the Attaining Creative Solutions event in Edinburgh (June 2015) as part of the National Creative Learning Network annual events and the Emporium of Dangerous Ideas...
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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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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...
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Engage for Education - Creativity
Creativity related posts from the Engage for Education...
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Social Rejection Can Fuel Imagination - John Hopkins University Research
A new study by a Johns Hopkins University business professor finds that social rejection can inspire imaginative thinking, particularly in individuals with a strong sense of their own independence...
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Research and Policy
Design Thinking for Educators toolkit
A free, how-to toolkit and coursework from IDEO that introduces educators to the process and methods of design...
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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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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
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
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
Creative Environments for Learning in Schools – a systematic review of literature
Summary of a review of literature relating to creative environments for learning in schools undertaken by Education Scotland and the Centre for Research in Early Scientific Learning (CRESL) at Bath Spa University...
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Research and Policy
The TIME Creativity Poll
In partnership with the Motion Picture Association of America and Microsoft, TIME polled Americans about the role of creativity in the workplace, in schools and in government...
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Research and Policy
The Glow Professional Learning Community for Creativity
Engage in conversation around creativity with educators right across Scotland by using the #creativity hashtag in the National Professional Learning Community...