By Moraima Machado, Ed.D (Principal in San Lorenzo Unified Faculty District) The purpose of freedom is human creative imagination, the enhancement, and elaboration of daily life ~ (Nachmanovitch, 1990) When I was growing up in Venezuela, I usually discovered myself on my mother’s bed or at our eating room table […]
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Lines Start Stories – imaginED
By Holly BF Warren Lines start stories that unfold as you step into experiences. As you put one foot in front of the other, as you hold a pen, a paintbrush, a stick in the sand, a thread of thoughts that stitch an idea to another, a movement or a […]
Engaging Imagination to Develop a School Leadership Network that Includes a Pedagogy of Care – imaginED
By Myra Quadros-Meis, Ed.D (Administrator in San Francisco Unified University District) College management can be lonely and isolating. Your colleagues are other administrators who are also fast paced so you do not want to stress them with your issues or fears. Frequently, leadership conferences are entire of logistics with tiny […]
Seeing With a Diversity of Eyes – imaginED
By Ira Rabois It all began one night when I got completely engrossed in viewing Japanese woodblock prints, primarily the evening scenes by Kawase Hasui. Hasui was a single of Japan’s most distinguished and prolific printmakers, who died in 1957. He made landscapes that fantastically merged humans–their homes, boats, shrines, […]
Greatest Science Book EVER? – imaginED
By Brandon Hendrickson YouTube is a firehose of garbage: gossip, fake news, and conspiracy theories. It’s also the greatest science book humanity has ever written. Armed with YouTube, you can begin for your students a science education that, before ten years ago, the wealthiest people in the world couldn’t have […]
An Imaginative Approach to Teaching Literacy in the Primary Classroom – imaginED
Judith Ameresekere (MEd in Imaginative Instruction, lover of literacy, and Most important Educator) Teaching grade two students how to generate perfectly is no walk in the park. Usually, in a given calendar year, I have a handful of college students who certainly adore producing and are proficient at employing their […]
On the Windowsill of Imagination – imaginED
Holly BF Warren (atelierista/artwork studio trainer/multimedia artist) When we think we could stare into space, glance out from a window, doodle, fiddle with no matter what is at hand, touch our head, or play with our hair. Creativeness weaves into our thoughts and nudges us into the realm of prospects. […]
Transforming Schools and Communities – imaginED
Greetings fellow creativity accomplices! Our e book on creativity in leadership is completely ready for pre-order! (Publication date: March 24, 2023). Cultivating Imagination in Leadership: Reworking Educational facilities and Communities provides a theoretical understanding of how creativity contributes to productive leadership, as properly as functional instruments all academic leaders can make use of […]