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Extended 90 min

Creativity for Learning

Saturday, November 15, 2025
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM ET
Location: Convention Center, 403/404/405
Grade Level: Pre-K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Short Description: This session explores four key themes: metacognitive processes, opportunities for creativity, nurturing environments, and motivation. Drawing from research in gifted education, theory, and insights from highly creative individuals, this session will provide strategies for fostering creative mindsets—flexibility, fluency, originality, elaboration, incubation, and evaluation. Learn how to create lessons, design engaging environments, and implement assessments to ignite gifted students' creative potential.

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will learn how to create engaging, culturally responsive, and equitable classroom environments that nurture creativity through inquiry-based instruction and opportunities for student-driven innovation.
  • Participants will explore and implement evidence-based strategies for fostering creative thinking skills, including flexibility, fluency, originality, elaboration, incubation, and evaluation, to enhance learning across disciplines.
  • Participants will gain tools for designing assessments to develop strategies to motivate students to take creative risks and persist through challenges.