OUR STUDENTS DESERVE A CREATIVE EDUCATION
Welcome Creative Educator,
We’re so glad you’re here! Choose Creativity provides teachers and support staff with a transformative SEL curriculum to unlock the fundamental joy and creativity of teaching children and supporting their learning.
This is not your typical curriculum where you’ll rehash scripts and scenarios that don’t quite match up with what’s happening with your students. It will not pile on more to your already full plate!
Our curriculum builds creative confidence and empowers you, your students, and their families with a common language based on 10 Principles of Creativity.
The Principles are Authentic, Resourceful, Patient, Expressive, Curious, Unconventional, Intuitive, Present, Inventive, and Inspired.
With these 10 Principles, you’ll watch your students blossom and thrive. And, you’ll reconnect with your own story of why you became an educator.
We can all agree that the moment for creativity is now. We hope you’ll start this journey with us!
With Admiration,
The Choose Creativity Team
WHY CREATIVE CONFIDENCE MATTERS
Resilient people share personal characteristics such as flexibility, resourcefulness, adaptability, and originality. Building and strengthening these skills – key outcomes of our curriculum – are positive counterbalances to adversity. With creative confidence, we find ourselves imagining the viewpoint of others, leading to more positive relationships, communication skills, and perspective-taking abilities. Theses skills are essential for adapting to this rapidly-changing world.
WHY THIS CURRICULUM CAN HELP YOU
— High-quality Pre-K through 6th grade SEL curriculum that will transform your exprience in the classroom
— Fosters creative confidence across all daily learning activities and instruction
— Use as a tool for behavior management and problem-solving
— Easy to implement and works tomorrow
— Family engagement is built into the curriculum — watch how it’s a common language for school and home
HERE'S WHAT'S INCLUDED
Our easy-to-navigate platform gives you access to all of our curriculum materials in English and Spanish. These materials give you the support and confidence you’ll need to begin incorporating the vocabulary of the 10 Principles into your entire school day. For your grade level, we’ll provide you with:
- Scripted lessons with slide decks to explore each Principle
- Streamlined implementation into your daily classroom routines
- Book lists, hands-on activities, and classroom visuals
- Family engagement resources
- Online tutorial videos and professional development and support opportunities
BECOME A PART OF A COMMUNITY OF EDUCATORS WHO VALUE CREATIVITY
For the past three years, I’ve used the curriculum, and honestly, it’s changed not only my students, but me too.
I’ve seen firsthand how these 10 Principles build confidence in students.
My students feel encouraged to be curious and explore, be expressive and create, and be intuitive and believe in their own ideas.
I model these qualities for my students so they understand creativity is a way of thinking and living.
I was having a really tough time teaching a math lesson about adding unit fractions — it was going in one ear and out the other, and nothing was clicking for the kids.
So I thought, ‘What do I have that can help explain this?’ As I looked around my room, I grabbed my Magna-Tiles and stuck the halves on my whiteboard.
Showing the math concept in this way was a lightbulb moment for the entire class! And I was able to incorporate into the lesson how I, as a teacher, was being resourceful and inventive to help them understand.
We use the 10 Principles when talking about characters in books we’ve read.
Several of the Principles have come up, and I hint, ‘That sounds like a word that we’ve heard before’. And the kids excitedly point to the 10 Principles poster in our classroom.
We read a book about an unconventional girl that likes to mismatch. When the girl tries to match and do what everybody else does for a day, she became miserable. And so being authentic and expressive instantly came up in our class discussion.
