By David Futter (Retired Middle School teacher, IE Consultant/Researcher, LiD Master, Lives in Victoria BC) Did you know that Victoria, BC has a by-law that forbids the cutting down of Garry Oak trees? Even if it is a little more than a sapling poking out of the ground, you cannot remove it. The reason is […]
Category: Imaginative Education (IE): Activities & Insights
These posts are all about Imaginative Education (Dr. Kieran Egan’s imagination-focused approach to teaching.) Learn about the imagination’s role in learning and how to engage it in teaching!
Reflections on the Imagination Champions Learning Series
By Cecily Heras (MEd student, SFU; Educator; Coordinator, Imagination Champions Learning Series) Just as the sun was setting with spectacular pinks and yellows on November 20, 15 K-12 educators from the Lower Mainland gathered for a fun, engaging, interactive, informative, and imaginative two hours. This was the first session in the Imagination Champions Professional Learning […]
The Heroic Classroom: Connection
By Christa Rawlings (MEd in IE; Grade 6 Teacher, Learning in Depth Teacher) I have been teaching in the Surrey School District in British Columbia, Canada, since 2002. The majority of my career has been spent working in a designated inner-city school teaching upper intermediate students. I am very passionate about the benefits of Kieran […]
The Brain Fit Super Power of the Month: Empathy
By Natalie Hunniford (Educator, Counsellor, author of the Brain Fit Tool Kit and creator of The Brain Fit Super Powers school program) Brain Fit Super Powers is a school wide program that I’ve created for schools to help enhance students’ mental health, overall well being, emotional and physical health, and academic achievement. The Super Power […]
The Time Zone: Imagining Community Research
By Nadia Chaney (Director of Training, Partners for Youth Empowerment; CIRCE Academic Council Member) I’ve been facilitating community arts workshops and trainings for eighteen years. While my motivations sometimes morphed and changed (I started out as a teenager thinking everyone should get ANGRY about the world, and ran a community discussion forum with the express […]
