Constructing a Culture of Creativity
Gifted education has a long and rich history of championing creative productivity in our students. Yet, many of our gifted students have become stymied by a fear of failure and the proverbial creative block. To overcome these mental roadblocks, this session explores core principles that today’s most innovative businesses and industries are utilizing to overcome the unseen forces that stand in the way of true inspiration and provides practical examples of how we can implement these principles into our gifted programs.
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6. FALL
2018
TOUR
10/11 - West Virginia Association for the Gifted and Talented
10/15-16 - Ohio Association for Gifted Children
10/19-20 - Gifted Association of Missouri
10/ 27 - The Grayson School CogniCon
11/3 - Orange County Council for the Gifted
11/6 - CITES Learning Edge Conference
11/9 - Maine Educators of the Gifted and Talented
11/15-18 - NAGC Annual Convention
11/30 - Rutgers Gifted Education Conference
12/12 - Bucks County Intermediate Unit
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7. ALABAMA HAWAII MASSACHUSETTS NEW MEXICO SOUTH DAKOTA
ALASKA IDAHO MICHIGAN NEW YORK TENNESSEE
ARIZONA ILLINOIS MINNESOTA NORTH CAROLINA TEXAS
ARKANSAS INDIANA MISSISSIPPI NORTH DAKOTA UTAH
CALIFORNIA IOWA MISSOURI OHIO VERMONT
COLORADO KANSAS MONTANA OKLAHOMA VIRGINIA
CONNECTICUT KENTUCKY NEBRASKA OREGON WASHINGTON
DELAWARE LOUISIANA NEVADA PENNSYLVANIA WEST VIRGINIA
FLORIDA MAINE NEW HAMPSHIRE RHODE ISLAND WISCONSIN
GEORGIA MARYLAND NEW JERSEY SOUTH CAROLINA WYOMING
21. We encourage our employees,
in addition to their regular projects,
to spend 20% of their time working on
what they think will most benefit Google.
This empowers them to be more creative
and innovative.
30. The Law of Accelerating Returns
Ray Kurzweil
We won’t experience
100 years of progress
in the 21st century
— it will be more like
20,000 years of progress.
33. It is not the strongest that survives,
Nor the most intelligent….
It is the one that is most
ADAPTABLE TO CHANGE.
Those that have learned to
COLLABORATE
and IMPROVISE have prevailed.
Charles Darwin
34.
35. GRAB YOUR OWN PERMISSION
Who are you waiting for to tell you it’s okay?
Your boss?
Your mother?
Yoda?
GRAB YOUR OWN PERMISSION.
No one is going to give it to you.
36. GRAB YOUR OWN PERMISSION
I, ______________________________
GIVE MYSELF PERMISSION TO:
________________________________
________________________________
________________________________
38. PERMISSION SLIP
Please excuse _____________________ from the way
things have always been done.
Time’s up on standard operating procedures.
______________________ admits he/she doesn’t have the
answers. So please excuse _____________________ from
the expectations that they have any of it figured out.
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
39. PERMISSION SLIP
The solution is out there. But only if you permit
_____________________ to try, and probably fail and then
to keep trying. The process won’t be neat. Instead it will
be scary, and messy, and well, weird. But that will be
courageous. And awesome. And the start of change.
Signature _____________________
(YOUR NAME HERE)
44. KNOWS WHAT YOU SEARCH
KNOWS WHAT YOU BROWSE
KNOWS WHAT YOU WATCH
KNOWS WHAT YOU PAUSE
KNOWS WHAT YOU SKIP
KNOWS WHAT YOU STOP WATCHING
KNOWS WHAT YOU WILL LIKE
KNOWS WHAT YOU BINGE
KNOWS YOU
56. Get great creative people.
Bet big on them.
Give them enormous leeway and support.
Provide them with an environment in
which they can get honest
feedback from everyone.
PIXAR’S
PHILOSOPHY
57. Get great creative people.
Bet big on them.
Give them enormous leeway and support.
Provide them with an environment in
which they can get honest
feedback from everyone.
GIFTED EDUCATION’S
PHILOSOPHY
58. “The attempt to avoid failure
makes failure more likely.
Trying to avoid
failure by
out-thinking it
dooms you
to fail.”
http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Sadness
- Ed Catmull
74. Around here we don’t look
backwards for very long…
We keep moving forward,
opening up new doors and doing
new things because we’re
curious, and curiosity keeps
leading us down new paths.
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