Using Your Hands

This week in my graduate studies course called Roots of Inquiry, we watched a film called How to Cook Your Life. It features Zen Buddhist chef/baker at Tassajara Zen Center in California, Edward Espe Brown. There was a part of the movie when Espe Brown was talking about using his hands. He said, "Cooking brings your hands nourishment because your hands get to be hands instead of playing around...

MaKey MaKey

We got a MaKey Makey to play with at school. Here's what it is: We took it out of the box in my grade 7 Innovation & Technology class yesterday, and let the kids explore. They discovered quickly how to make a keypad out of a piece of paper and arrows drawn on with pencil, and also made one out of PlayDoh. It was pretty awesome watching them play Pac Man with the MaKey MaKey -...

Do They Need to Know the Seven Strands?

Posted by Erin Quinn I taught an option class to my grade sevens last term called Creative Problem Solving. I decided to focus on games and play - a great move, because my students loved this class so much. It was one of those delightful times when they were learning a lot without really even knowing they were learning. We started with The Institute of Play's Gamekit. The term's...

Join Us For National Sweater Day on February 6, 2014

Posted by Stephanie Bartlett Sweater Day is on February 6, 2014! Let our students take charge with a social innovation project!  Our Kindergarten students are getting ready to educate the school community on the importance of saving energy by lowering our thermostats by 2 degrees.  We will encourage families to wear their craziest sweaters in support of this movement and lower...

Why Live Creatively

What does living creatively and sharing your passions with others have to do with teaching creative development?  More than you might think!  A creative lifestyle encompasses an interest in any discipline in which one moves longitudinally through the strands of creative development.  Take a look at your activities and passions through the lens of the Seven Strands of Creative...