

Play, Kindness & Creativity
Creative Sprint for Educators; Play, Kindness, and Creativity Last year we started the year with a Creative Sprint using in the book of the same name written by Noah and Mica Scalin, it was really a great way to start the year and spark new creative ideas. Since then we have been able to get to know Mica and share with her our love of the creative sprint and how much we’d like to educators use it to jumpstart both their own and their students’ creativity. Why Play, Kindness

It's called English Language Arts for a reason!
Sadly, it's 10:40 on Wednesday evening and I usually have a blog written, edited and ready to go for Thursday's post.......not tonight. C'est la vie, just too much on the to-do list this week. But the good news is that we have a wonderful guest on the podcast, Kim Durall, an amazing middle school English Language Arts teacher. We are so thankful for Kim, she is teaching our own seventh-grader. Ms. Durall has sparked a passion for reading and storytelling in our son that w

PLN POWER
Our mission .... the mission of The Creativity Department is multi-dimensional. The Creativity Department/GrundlerArt.com's mission is to connect creatively minded educators with ideas and colleagues. Building a Professional Learning Network and a community of arts advocates via the #K12ArtChat twitter chat, the Creativity Department podcast, and blog. However, a primary component of the department is to help educators connect with colleagues that share ideas, inspire and su

20 Things we want to say more often in 2020
Most of the time I'm overly serious but there are times when I can be silly. One of the times I can share my silly side is in little videos, I like to send inspirational or silly videos to the teachers I have the honor of working with, usually before a break or sometimes just because. Right before the recent winter break I was working on what I wanted to send and went on a google hunt and found this great video from The Kid President-20 Things We Should Say More Often which