Chris-Betcher-Spotlight

Title:
Change, Creativity, Curriculum and Community: Succeeding in Spite of the System

Abstract:
The world has changed (a lot!) and those who can't adapt to this change face the risk of irrelevancy. How do our schools encourage creativity and the ability to question and challenge the status quo in ways that will help us thrive in this new world? Our job as contemporary educators is to make sure that creativity, innovation and "thinking different" are highly valued and rewarded in our classrooms, even if the system in general doesn't measure and support these things. We need to do great things with kids in spite of the system.  How do we do this?

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