By Meaghan Dougherty and Gillian Judson Our educational ecosystem is increasingly complex. In North America, we are engaged in educational environments marked by vast disparities in funding and resources coupled with the ever-increasing physical, emotional, social, and academic needs of students. We are responsible for caring for students, for keeping them safe, in a context […]
lower case imagining through the wisdom of the body
by Sandeep Kaur Glover, Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University Note: This blog is an extension of the Episode 8 Cultivating Imagination podcast. Since my invigorating podcast interview with Heidi Wood, I have been ruminating on the nourishing resonances of our conversation. As I pondered what to share with you for this blog, […]
A Spa Day for Your Brain
By Christina Velasco, Leadership Coach, San Francisco Unified School District This blog is an extension of Episode 7 of the Cultivating Imagination podcast. Educational leaders who actively work for equity, excellence and social justice experience work-related stress and require spaces and strategies to support themselves and others. We need systems and structures to support […]
Reimagining Schooling: A Problem of Design
By Mark Fettes, Director of Centre for Imagination in Research, Culture and Education This blog is an extension of Episode 6 of the Cultivating Imagination podcast. For twenty years, as a faculty member in Education at Simon Fraser University, I ran fairly large scale, community-based research projects with schools and school districts around British […]