Creative Schools

​Creative Schools:

​The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education

Ken Robinson​

​Overview

• Intended Audience

• ​Purpose of Book

• Summary

  • Robinson's Criticisms

  • ​Robinson's Philosophy

  • Examples of what Works

• Evaluation of the book​

Overview​

​Intended Audience

• Students

• Teachers

• Principals

• Parents

• Policymakers

Intended Audience​ and Purpose

• Students

• Teachers

• Principals

• Parents

• Policymakers

​Audience and Purpose

Audience and Purpose​

• Students

• Teachers

• Principals

• Parents​

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​Purpose

​Intended Audience

• To critique the current education system

• To offer an opinion on what schools should look like

• To show how some schools are already changing the way we look at education​

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• Students hated music class but loved to listen to music on

• Brought outside work in (commercial/video game music)

  • Students create their own music and collaborate on his

• Live bands for workshopping

​Johnson's Music Class

• ..if football was the most important to you, then we are going to do whatever it takes to keep you in football (pg 4)"

• teachers care about student interest = students want to do schoolwork

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​Smokey Road Middle School

​More Passion Schools

Sommary - Examples of what works - Student Passion

​"...if they get to spend 2 or 3 hours on the thing that lets them show their strengths, it's a lot easier to work with them one-on-one on the thing that makes them feel most disempowered."

​Boston Arts Academy

Summary - Examples of what works - Student Passion

• Showcasing student strength

• 1/2 day arts, 1/2 academics

• 94% of graduates go to college

Poll

Robinson believes that building a curriculum around students' interests leads to students performing at high levels in all areas.

How much student interest would you implement in your classroom?

• Not at all

• Small amounts of curriculum

• half of curriculum

• Almost all curriclum

• All curriculum

• ​"back to basics" - mimicking/experimenting

• ​"real-world" situations - practice literacy and language skills

• "deeply engaged" and "enthusiastic"

​​Grange Primary School

• ​Non-English speaking families

• Shakespeare in Class

• Many successful students with perfect English

​​Hobart Elementary School

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​Schools with Roleplay

Summary - Examples of what works - Roleplay

Open Ended

Implementing roleplaying activities may be easier in younger classrooms.

How can a middle/high school teacher implement this practice in their classroom?