1. Can you identify what all
of these people have in
common?

3. All of these individuals
dropped out of school.

4. Problem:
• Education in CA K-12 has
become about teaching for
testing and not for
students.
•

5. Current CA testing:
• Conducted with paper and pencil
• Math
• Science
• Social Studies
• English

6. That’s it.

7. The results of this testing influence
not only the lives individuals who
take the tests, but the funding of the
schools they attend.

8. Yet no where in this system are
there metrics to measure creativity
or problem solving.

9. News Week covered Facing a world becoming
“The Creativity Crisis,” dramatically more complex, it
citing evidence that is interesting that CEOs
shows for the first time selected creativity as the most
important leadership attribute.
in 50 years, American
Creative leaders invite
creativity is on the disruptive innovation,
decline. encourage others to drop
outdated approaches and take
balanced risks. They are open-
The world minded and inventive in
expanding their management
wants and communication styles,
particularly to engage with a
new generation of employees,
creativity partners and customers.
- IBM’s global CEO Study

10. There are 3 types of learning
Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic

11. Why don’t we test all 3?

12. Recommended Solutions
• Treat students as Individuals
• Build a students skill set based on their
strengths interest and abilities
• Integrate collaboration, problem solving and
creativity into curriculum
• Update the rubric for measuring performance

13. Insight
• Individuals who are
able to succeed on
their own are often
those who suffer most
in the current
education system.

14. Who should we talk to
about this current
crisis?

15. Creative Class
• Scientists • People in design
• Engineers • Education
• University • Arts
professors
• Poets • Music
• Entertainment
• Architects
• whose economic function is to create
new ideas, new technology and/or
creative content” -Florida

16. The Creative class is 18%
of the population, and
has pre established sub
communities

17. Sub communities

18. What is the role of the
education in their life:
• Though they love learning and
problem solving, the education system
represents broken system that does
not embrace them.

19. Opportunity
• Recruit the creative class to become
advocates for creativity and
collaboration in the classroom.

20. We want the creative
class to...

21. Think
• About their educational experiences,
and the current holes in the education
system.

22. Feel
• They have the power to create change.

23. Do
• Become an active advocate for for
creativity and collaboration in the
classroom.

24. Strategy:
• Utilize the collective brainpower of the
creative class to ignite change in the
education system.

25. Communication Strategy
• Tell the creative community that
through their specific skill set they
can create a change in a system that
stifles creativity and problem solving

26. Communication
touch points
• Community based events
• Facebook/Twitter/Schemer
• Creative publications
• University and Creative School
Campus’

27. Existing examples:

28. Thought Starters:
• Create a platform for the sub
communities of the creative class to
collaborate and start problem solving.

29. • "Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful, concerned citizens can
change world. Indeed it is the only
thing that ever has”-Margaret Mead

30. Thank you.
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