A third grader overcomes her shyness and shares her thoughts on improv.
Improv
Creativity in a Minute Podcast #1 with Ethan
Ethan shares about the isolation that resulted from his struggle to resolve his creativity with the structure of school.
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?
Project HOPE: Where No One Was Kicked Off the Island
They accepted the difficult ones and the difficult days
Yes! And, . . . How Improv Woke Me Up
Have you ever seen a kid create a whole world while no one is watching?
Alyson Budde 