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Introducing the Creativity in a Minute Podcast

"Children should be seen and not heard" is a 15th Century English proverb, but I remember hearing adults say it when I was young and contemporaries say it when we had small children. The idea that a child might contribute something meaningful is challenging to adults who assume they are in charge. Young people are…Read more Introducing the Creativity in a Minute Podcast

Are schools killing creativity?

This post will feel different to my regular readers who know my writing as personal experience accounts of Wonderland Playhouse, the children’s acting improvisation and storytelling theater I founded, and also know that I have returned to college in my fifth decade. While at university I have been researching how improvisation may be used by…Read more Are schools killing creativity?

Living the Dream: How do you collaborate with the future?

Like stepping into a dream, my life changed this week.  I know that one day merely walking on campus won't make me cry, but that day was not today.  My sense of good fortune is visceral and commanding.  People say my choice inspires them, that returning to school at my age is courageous, and that…Read more Living the Dream: How do you collaborate with the future?