In this episode the Creative Engagement Lab team reviews and discusses two excellent teacher examples from the makeSPACE Foundation Course. These teachers adapt and apply creative routines to their existing math curriculum, aiming to support and enhance student understanding in particular math concepts.

Teachers are innovators! In this episode Philadelphia educators share their classroom adaptations of makeSPACE Creative Routines, opening new paths to student engagement and success with their unique invitations into creative thinking and action.
To find a few examples of makeSPACE Creative Routines visit Our Work.

We encourage you to bring the Creative Resource Shuffle into your classroom or event. What a rich experience!

In July 2018, poet, teacher, and author Ross Gay had an idea—what might happen if he wrote about something he found delightful as a daily practice for a whole year striaght. His idea grew into The Book of Delights, a selection from his yearlong meandering through the experiences, observations, and reflections that arose from his daily “essayettes” and developing “delight radar”.

Today, we have a conversation with Ross Gay about the world of delights.

At makeSPACE, we believe that the creative process is participatory and for everyone. And so we ask our partners to think about creativity from a different perspective.

This approach to understanding creative potential—and our capacity to produce creativity—follows the same logic proposed by Stan Kuczaj. Dr. Kuczaj, a comparative psychologist and dolphin expert, wasn't satisfied with the narrowly standardized approach to cetacean research. He implored his fellow researchers to ask, “not how smart are dolphins, but how are dolphins smart?”

In this episode, we find parallels between this inquiry and our own creativity.