Creating What We Have Never Seen: A Challenge for School Leaders

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 […]

Imagining Educational Transformation

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 […]

Supporting Imaginative Activism through Educated Discourse Communities

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 […]