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Creativity and the Common Core State Standards are both important to todays teachers. Yet, for many educators, nurturing students creativity seems to conflict with ensuring that they learn specific skills and content. In this book, the authors outline ways to adapt existing lessons and mandated curricula to encourage the development of student creativity alongside more traditional academic skills. Based on cutting-edge psychological research on creativity, the text debunks common misconceptions about creativity and describes how learning environments can support both creativity and the Common Core offers creative lessons and insights for teaching English language arts and mathematics and includes assessments for creativity and Common Core learning. Featuring numerous classroom examples, this practical resource will empower teachers to think of the Common Core and creativity as encompassing complementary, rather than mutually exclusive, goals.



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Ronald A. Beghetto

Dr. Beghetto is an international expert on creativity in educational settings. He serves as Professor of Educational Psychology in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. Prior to joining the faculty at UConn, Dr. Beghetto served as the College of Education's Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Education Studies at the University of Oregon.

His research focuses on promoting creativity in everyday teaching, learning, and leadership practices. A central theme of his work is helping students, teachers and instructional leaders reclaim creativity in schools and classrooms. His work also highlights how making slight changes to existing teaching, learning, and leadership practices can result in new ways of thinking and acting. Dr. Beghetto speaks and provides professional development workshops around the world on issues related to helping teachers, instructional leaders, and policy makers develop new and transformative possibilities for teaching, learning, and leadership in K-12 and Higher Education settings.

Dr. Beghetto is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Creative Behavior and serves as an associate editor for the International Journal of Creativity and Problem Solving. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (Div. 10, APA) . He is the 2008 recipient of Daniel E. Berlyne Award from Division 10 of the American Psychological Association for outstanding research by an early career scholar. Dr. Beghetto has also received numerous awards for excellence in teaching. In Spring 2006 he received the University of Oregon 's highest teaching award for early career faculty (Ersted Crystal Apple Award) .



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