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imaginED is a blog designed to support and enable imagination-focused teaching in all contexts, from formal to alternative learning contexts, and from primary school through higher education. imaginED provides teaching ideas, activities and resources aimed at students of all ages (pre-k through post-secondary). Imagination-focused teaching applies to all educational settings (the traditional..
imaginED | Canadian Education Blog
5d ago
by Sandeep Kaur Glover, Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University
Note: This blog is an extension of the Episode 8 Cultivating Imagination podcast.
Since my invigorating podcast interview with Heidi Wood, I have been ruminating on the nourishing resonances of our conversation. As I pondered what to share with you for this blog, I did not start by clicking characters on my keyboard. I’ve learned that when I start any inquiry in stationary pose, I soon find myself stuck in siloed theorizations, whether it is one disciplinary approach, one metanarrative, or one philosophical concept ..read more
imaginED | Canadian Education Blog
1w ago
By Christina Velasco, Leadership Coach, San Francisco Unified School District
This blog is an extension of Episode 7 of the Cultivating Imagination podcast.
Educational leaders who actively work for equity, excellence and social justice experience work-related stress and require spaces and strategies to support themselves and others. We need systems and structures to support educational leaders’ stamina to stay in the equity work of social justice leadership.
Let’s engage our inner rebel and reimagine what professional development is for educational leaders so that they can take care of ..read more
imaginED | Canadian Education Blog
1w ago
By Mark Fettes, Director of Centre for Imagination in Research, Culture and Education
This blog is an extension of Episode 6 of the Cultivating Imagination podcast.
For twenty years, as a faculty member in Education at Simon Fraser University, I ran fairly large scale, community-based research projects with schools and school districts around British Columbia, Canada’s westernmost province. The school system can be hospitable to innovation if you put a lot of energy into it, and ideally, energy with some money attached, as I could do in the context of these research projects. Always I c ..read more
imaginED | Canadian Education Blog
2w ago
by George Theoharis, Professor of Educational Leadership and Inclusive Elementary Education in the School of Education, Syracuse University
This blog is an extension of Episode 6 of the Cultivating Imagination podcast.
Think about Rosa Parks, Ed Nixon, Joanne Robinson, and the many Black community members of Montgomery, Alabama who imagined a bus system that was not segregated. Think about Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress who imagined creating a South Africa they had never lived in. Think about LaMarcus Adna Thompson who imagined the thrill and excitement people young and old c ..read more
imaginED | Canadian Education Blog
3w ago
By Lori Driussi, independent education consultant and Faculty Associate at Simon Fraser University
This blog is an extension of Episode 7 of the Cultivating Imagination podcast.
Imagination is a way of being, a door opener, an invitation for all to enter and contribute to the world we seek but have not yet realized. One might say the same of education. To move from performative to transformative teaching and leading we need to imagine. Imagine education as an endeavour to create a more just world. Imagine that a relational and radical acceptance is our priority and context for policy m ..read more
imaginED | Canadian Education Blog
1M ago
By Michael Dé Danann Datura, principal of Cortes Island School
This blog is an extension of Episode 5 of the Cultivating Imagination podcast.
As an “academic” it can be frustrating to have every lecture or big idea followed up by questions of: “…but what do we do now? …what are the practical implications? …how and why will this matter to my students on Monday morning?” As if having courageous conversations about important ideas or philosophies or, for example, the role that worldview plays on complex matters such as the climate catastrophe are “doing nothing.” On the other h ..read more
imaginED | Canadian Education Blog
1M ago
By Moraima Machado, San Lorenzo Unified School District and Myra Quadros Meis, San Francisco Unified School District
This blog is an extension of Episode 4 of the Cultivating Imagination podcast.
In education, imagination is essential. Imagination is the capacity we have as humans to imagine new possibilities. To create and re-create is to re-construct reality. As a site leader, there is consistently a set of demands to maintain the system. Principals are accountable to many stakeholders and usually get stuck in the bureaucracy of the organizational system. This b ..read more
imaginED | Canadian Education Blog
2M ago
By Sean Blenkinsop, professor in the faculty of education at Simon Fraser University
Last Tuesday I had the opportunity to be part of a dialogue with Andy Hargreaves where we explored ideas connected to educational leadership and the imagination. And, thanks to all present, it was an interesting and engaging hour though we might have needed a touch more time to solve all the world’s problems. Happily, once we signed-off I still had a couple of things to mull over. The most pertinent to this blog had to do with uncertainty. Both a recognition of its ubiquitous presence ..read more
imaginED | Canadian Education Blog
2M ago
By Andy Hargreaves, Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa and Research Professor at Boston College
Note: This blog is an extension of the Cultivating Imagination podcast Episode 2: Shared Spaces, Multiple Voices- Imagining Inclusive and Sustainable Educational Ecosystems with Sean Blenkinsop and Andy Hargreaves
A few years ago, I was elected President of an international conference organization. With the preceding president, I interviewed 10% of the membership, to learn more about the organization. The interviewees liked the organization (otherwise they wouldn’t sti ..read more
imaginED | Canadian Education Blog
2M ago
by Vidya Shah, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at York University
I’m so very grateful for the opportunity to have been in conversation with Jacqueline Lawrence, Stephen Hurley, and Meaghan Dougherty in Episode 1 of the Cultivating Imagination podcast. What a life-giving conversation that was! Below I share some thoughts on imagination since that conversation, drawing on inspiration from the Finding Our Way podcast hosted by Prentis Hemphill, the Emergent Strategies Series curated by adrienne marie brown, and my own learning from TheThe UnLeading Project.
Im ..read more