PANEL: Creativity and Imagination

PANEL: Creativity and Imagination

How can we bring more imagination into your classroom, schools, and/or institutions? Lincoln Center Institute has brought Imaginative Learning to classrooms and educator professional development for over 35 years. Join LCI's Executive Director and co-author of IMAGINATION FIRST, Scott Noppe-Brandon, and author Ashley Merryman as they discuss the Imagination Continuum, an educational paradigm where imagination gives way to creativity (imagination applied) and innovation is cultivated, as well as the key themes of the book, NURTURE SHOCK. This insight will lead to a deeper understanding of how we can integrate education for imagination with education for standards.

BIOGRAPHY

Ashley Merryman is the co-author of NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children, a revolutionary new perspective on children that upends a library’s worth of conventional wisdom. She is an award-winning journalist who has written on the science of child development for Newsweek, Time, and New York – with a recent Newsweek cover story on “The Creativity Crisis.” She’s appeared on The Charlie Rose Show, Anderson Cooper’s AC360, CNN’s This American Morning, MSNBC, and Studio 360.

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Scott Noppe-Brandon, executive director of Lincoln Center Institute, has spent the past fourteen years proudly leading the arts-and-education branch of the world’s foremost performing arts center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. A practicing educator and performer for 12 years prior to taking the helm of the Institute in 1995, Noppe-Brandon is known internationally as a speaker, writer, and advocate for education in and through the arts. Noppe-Brandon is one of the founders of Imagination Conversations, summits of leaders from all walks of life who care about fostering a culture of imagination. Currently, he is leading a campaign for all 50 states to hold the Conversations, with the goal of presenting the resulting ideas on education reform to policy makers. Noppe-Brandon has on numerous occasions contributed a column toEducation Update. He is the co-editor of Community in the Making: Lincoln Center Institute. In 2009, he co-authored with Eric Liu the book Imagination First: Unlocking the Power of Possibility. A revised edition of the book is slated for paperback release in 2011.