Constructing a Culture of Creativity
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Constructing a Culture of Creativity Gifted education has a long and rich history of championing creative productivity in our students. Yet, many of our gifted students have become stymied by a fear of failure and the proverbial creative block. To overcome these mental roadblocks, this session explores core principles that today’s most innovative businesses and industries are utilizing to overcome the unseen forces that stand in the way of true inspiration and provides practical examples of how we can implement these principles into our gifted programs. brianhousand.com @brianhousand
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- 6. FALL 2018 TOUR 10/11 - West Virginia Association for the Gifted and Talented 10/15-16 - Ohio Association for Gifted Children 10/19-20 - Gifted Association of Missouri 10/ 27 - The Grayson School CogniCon 11/3 - Orange County Council for the Gifted 11/6 - CITES Learning Edge Conference 11/9 - Maine Educators of the Gifted and Talented 11/15-18 - NAGC Annual Convention 11/30 - Rutgers Gifted Education Conference 12/12 - Bucks County Intermediate Unit brianhousand.com
- 7. ALABAMA HAWAII MASSACHUSETTS NEW MEXICO SOUTH DAKOTA ALASKA IDAHO MICHIGAN NEW YORK TENNESSEE ARIZONA ILLINOIS MINNESOTA NORTH CAROLINA TEXAS ARKANSAS INDIANA MISSISSIPPI NORTH DAKOTA UTAH CALIFORNIA IOWA MISSOURI OHIO VERMONT COLORADO KANSAS MONTANA OKLAHOMA VIRGINIA CONNECTICUT KENTUCKY NEBRASKA OREGON WASHINGTON DELAWARE LOUISIANA NEVADA PENNSYLVANIA WEST VIRGINIA FLORIDA MAINE NEW HAMPSHIRE RHODE ISLAND WISCONSIN GEORGIA MARYLAND NEW JERSEY SOUTH CAROLINA WYOMING
- 9. FIND YOUR
- 10. October 4, 1957
- 13. July 20, 1969
- 16. STYMIED
- 17. MENTAL ROADBLOCK
- 21. We encourage our employees, in addition to their regular projects, to spend 20% of their time working on what they think will most benefit Google. This empowers them to be more creative and innovative.
- 23. It’s NOT about TIME It’s about FREEDOM
- 24. 120% Time
- 27. 23 HOURS GENIUS HOUR WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER 23 HOURS A DAY?
- 28. 167 HOURS WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER 167 HOURS A WEEK? GENIUS HOUR
- 29. ALL GENIUS ALL THE TIME
- 30. The Law of Accelerating Returns Ray Kurzweil We won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century — it will be more like 20,000 years of progress.
- 32. We can no longer afford to fail to imagine.
- 33. It is not the strongest that survives, Nor the most intelligent…. It is the one that is most ADAPTABLE TO CHANGE. Those that have learned to COLLABORATE and IMPROVISE have prevailed. Charles Darwin
- 35. GRAB YOUR OWN PERMISSION Who are you waiting for to tell you it’s okay? Your boss? Your mother? Yoda? GRAB YOUR OWN PERMISSION. No one is going to give it to you.
- 36. GRAB YOUR OWN PERMISSION I, ______________________________ GIVE MYSELF PERMISSION TO: ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________
- 37. I AM HITTING RESET AND SELECTING A NEW GAME
- 38. PERMISSION SLIP Please excuse _____________________ from the way things have always been done. Time’s up on standard operating procedures. ______________________ admits he/she doesn’t have the answers. So please excuse _____________________ from the expectations that they have any of it figured out. (YOUR NAME HERE) (YOUR NAME HERE) (YOUR NAME HERE)
- 39. PERMISSION SLIP The solution is out there. But only if you permit _____________________ to try, and probably fail and then to keep trying. The process won’t be neat. Instead it will be scary, and messy, and well, weird. But that will be courageous. And awesome. And the start of change. Signature _____________________ (YOUR NAME HERE)
- 42. 130 Million Subscribers 190 Countries $11.7 Billion in revenue in 2017 126 Original Series in 2016
- 44. KNOWS WHAT YOU SEARCH KNOWS WHAT YOU BROWSE KNOWS WHAT YOU WATCH KNOWS WHAT YOU PAUSE KNOWS WHAT YOU SKIP KNOWS WHAT YOU STOP WATCHING KNOWS WHAT YOU WILL LIKE KNOWS WHAT YOU BINGE KNOWS YOU
- 45. WHAT IF WE COULD EDUCATION?
- 49. FAILURE isn’t a necessary evil. In FACT, it isn’t EVIL at all. It is a NECESSARY consequence of doing something NEW. - Ed Catmull
- 50. TRUST
- 52. candorn. the state or quality of being frank, open, and sincere in speech or expression
- 53. Early on, all of our movies suck. Ed Catmull
- 54. http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/wall-e/images/6412320/title/wall-e-wallpaper-wallpaper “If something works, you shouldn’t do it again. We want to do something that is new, original — something where there’s a good chance of failure.”
- 56. Get great creative people. Bet big on them. Give them enormous leeway and support. Provide them with an environment in which they can get honest feedback from everyone. PIXAR’S PHILOSOPHY
- 57. Get great creative people. Bet big on them. Give them enormous leeway and support. Provide them with an environment in which they can get honest feedback from everyone. GIFTED EDUCATION’S PHILOSOPHY
- 58. “The attempt to avoid failure makes failure more likely. Trying to avoid failure by out-thinking it dooms you to fail.” http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Sadness - Ed Catmull
- 59. “We need to fail down here so we don’t fail up there.”
- 73. A VISION FOR THE FUTURE
- 74. Around here we don’t look backwards for very long… We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things because we’re curious, and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. !
- 85. SLIDES AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE AT brianhousand.com/oagc18