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Whinnery, Erin; Rafa, Alyssa; Wolff, Kate – Education Commission of the States, 2018
Creative Youth Development (CYD) is a long-standing practice that fuels students' potential by intentionally integrating creative skill-building, inquiry and expression with positive youth development principles. In CYD programs, young people create original work through arts experiences and apply their creative skills to solve problems. These…
Descriptors: Creativity, Skill Development, Program Descriptions, Disadvantaged Youth
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Berger, Michael; Scott, Elizabeth; Axe, Judah; Hawkins, Irana – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2013
College and university educators seek to increase student engagement in learning content, skills, and applications. To achieve this goal, we used transformative teaching techniques in the design of a World Challenge: a two-week, group-based, reflective course for sophomores leading their own learning in developing creative solutions to the problem…
Descriptors: College Students, College Faculty, Transformative Learning, Reflection
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Asayesh, Gelareh – Journal of Staff Development, 1993
Systems thinking involves seeing relationships between the parts to the whole within the school improvement effort. After providing the key principles and examples of systems thinking, the article emphasizes the importance of staff development, highlighting experiences at a Wellesley (Massachusetts) middle school and an Alaskan high school. (SM)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Faculty Development, High Schools