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LCI to Join WNET Celebration of Teaching & Learning on March 16

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

In three weeks, more than 10,000 North American educators will converge on the Hilton New York for WNET’s seventh annual Celebration of Teaching & Learning. The Celebration is a major professional development conference that includes over 40 featured speakers and 100 interactive workshops, as well as two exhibition halls full of education resources. This year, [...]

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Watch America’s Imagination Summit

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

In case you were on vacation in August or just spending some quality time away from the computer, Lincoln Center Institute (LCI) would like to remind you that comprehensive video footage of America’s Imagination Summit, the major event we hosted here in New York City on July 21-22, is available online.

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Coloring Outside the Lines

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

Lincoln Center Institute’s Imagination Conversations aim to, among other things, unite diverse sectors by drawing attention to their shared reliance on imagination. So it’s exciting for me to see the corporate and education worlds coming together on behalf of this cause: Crayola and the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) have just awarded “Champion [...]

Filed under: News Bulletin | Tagged: 21st century skills, capacities for imaginative learning, Champion Creatively Alive Children, Crayola, creativity, Critical thinking, education, imagination, Imagination Award, imagination conversations, Lincoln Center Institute, NAESP, National Association of Elementary School Principals | Leave a Comment »

News from New Orleans

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

I’m pleased to see that the ICI Continuum concept (imagination –> creativity –> innovation), which is central to my and Eric Liu’s book Imagination First (unsurprisingly so, since it is at the center of LCI’s teaching-for-imagination methodology), has popped up yet again—this time in Louisiana. The Town Talk reports that state educators assembled at the [...]

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Imagination Goes Global

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

Much of my work on imagination—Lincoln Center Institute’s Imagination Conversations and the book Imagination First, for instance—focuses on the United States. As I’ve said many times before, I want to see an imaginative shift in American education, one that will foster a national workforce of creative problem solvers and bold thinkers. But we advocates in [...]

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Notes from an Imagination Advocate, Part One

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

As regular readers of this blog know, most of my entries have to do with things going on in the world—with people in various sectors whose careers and actions embody imaginative practice. But it seems appropriate now and then to retreat from the hustle and bustle, exciting as it is, in order to reflect on [...]

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Emerging Issues Forum Brings Creativity in Education into Focus

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

In “More Creativity in the Classroom,” an opinion piece written for The Huffington Post, former North Carolina governor Jim Hunt expresses a vision for education with which I heartily agree. It is strikingly similar to the one embodied by the imaginative learning model of Lincoln Center Institute. “Creative thinking fuels innovation,” Hunt asserts. It leads [...]

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Redesigning the American Classroom

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

In a recent blog entry on graduate business schools, I mentioned “design thinking,” a term that may be unfamiliar to many readers. In a fascinating January 20 interview with Public School Insights, a blog of the Learning First Alliance, professor and business innovator David Kelley provides satisfying answers to anyone in the dark about what [...]

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Imagination Means Business

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

One aim of Lincoln Center Institute’s Imagination Conversations is to demonstrate to audiences that imagination is not only the province of artists but, rather, is central to the fields of education, science, government, and business. A recent New York Times article by Lane Wallace, “Multicultural Critical Theory. At B-School?”, reveals that some thought leaders in [...]

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