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Lincoln Center Institute (LCI), established in 1975 and located in New York City, is the educational cornerstone of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. LCI believes that the arts enrich our schools, enliven our classrooms, and engage our students in exploring wondrous possibilities. LCI is driven by its conviction that the imagination is an essential cognitive skill that can and should be taught. The Institute has applied imaginative learning in classrooms for over 35 years.

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MBA Grads Could Use an LCI Education

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

In order to succeed professionally, MBA graduates need creativity, innovation, empathy, and the ability to deal with failure, says a new Huffington Post article. These are all skills that Lincoln Center Institute (LCI) believes in, and strives to foster in students. Author and careers expert Stacie Nevadomski Berdan drew her findings from interviews with top [...]

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Imagination Abroad

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Christopher St. Clair

While Lincoln Center Institute’s advocacy on behalf of imagination, creativity, and innovation in education and all aspects of life and work constantly gains new ground in the U.S., we are acutely aware that there are many parts of the world where our ideology has not yet made inroads. Since a part of our vision is [...]

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Notes from an Imagination Advocate, Part Two

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

It’s always pleasing for an author who has written about an idea to see that idea reappear spontaneously in public discussions. I’ve experienced this pleasure with the “ICI Continuum,” a concept that Eric Liu and I include in Imagination First and that refers to this relationship: “Imagination -> Creativity (imagination applied) -> Innovation (novel creativity)” [...]

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The Playful Imagination

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Linda Miles

“The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.” ~James Geary (The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism [2005], 29) I recently encountered this quotation and I began thinking about thinking. I love Geary’s concept of the “revelry” of the mind, the joyous commotion [...]

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