WNET Spotlights LCI in Article on Arts Organizations and Schools

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

Lincoln Center Institute (LCI) is featured in a new article for MetroFocus, WNET’s multi-platform magazine. The piece, entitled “Surprising Schoolyard Pals,” focuses on the growing number of partnerships between area arts organizations and local schools. This isn’t an entirely recent phenomenon, however: we’ve been at it for 36 years.

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Lincoln Center Institute’s Capacities for Imaginative Learning

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Linda Miles

A growing number of blog visitors have been seeking information about Lincoln Center Institute‘s Capacities for Imaginative Learning. LCI has created the Capacities for Imaginative Learning as a framework for student learning, applicable to the Common Core Standards across the curriculum. The Capacities operate as both strategies for, and outcomes of, study according to LCI’s [...]

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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 [...]

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CEOs in the Market for Creativity

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

I’ve written on many occasions about the need for imagination, creativity, and innovation (ICI) in business, even going so far as to call the first item on that list America’s “greatest domestic renewable resource” (in the book, Imagination First, co-authored with Eric Liu, page 26). But don’t take my word for it: according to IBM’s [...]

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Full STEM Ahead in Rochester

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

On March 4, I wrote about the connection between the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—and the arts. Guided encounters with works of art and study of them based on the Capacities for Imaginative Learning help develop students’ imaginative and creative thinking skills—skills that supplement STEM knowledge in crucial ways. But let’s not try to [...]

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Nature and the Brain

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Linda Miles

I spent parts of my childhood summers at camp, where youngsters slept cricket-infused nights in canvas bungalows and swam and hiked through mosquito-blitzed days. As a teenager, I backpacked in the Adirondacks and the Rockies. I have idly gazed at sunsets on the west coasts of Michigan, of Florida, and of a small island in [...]

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Arts in Education in Steel City

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

The title of a recent article by Kellie B. Gormly in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is also one of our guiding principles here at Lincoln Center Institute: “The arts ignite children’s creativity, innovation, and imagination.” Eric Liu and I argue in Imagination First that the order of these concepts is: imagination → creativity → innovation. In this [...]

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Congratulations to NYC’s PS 219—Winner of the 2010 Imagination Award

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Linda Miles

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2010 LCI Imagination Award, PS 219, the Kennedy-King Elementary School in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. The celebration, and the giving of the $5000 award, took place at the school on the morning of June 23rd as part of the 5th-grade graduation ceremony. In his speech, Lincoln Center [...]

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Notes from an Imagination Advocate, Part Three

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

Coming of age in the ‘60s and ‘70s, I occasionally got the impression that certain members of the anti-establishment community thought that they were the first people ever to protest a government, and that their methods were utterly unique and had no historical precedent. In retrospect, I think some of the radical movements of the [...]

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The Pope’s Telescope

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

The discovery of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe would be the greatest turning point in the history of humankind. Fire, the wheel, religion, organized government, the printing press, the computer—all of these breakthroughs, which have enabled us to advance in so many ways—would pale in comparison. Of course, the scenarios I’m imagining wouldn’t necessarily [...]

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