INSPIRING CONFIDENT LEARNERS
Learn with Creative Confidence (LwCC) is a K-6 asset-based curriculum founded on the ideals of a healthy Belief Ecology. The curriculum puts emphasis on developing a student’s values, perspectives and identity, empowering children to generate original ideas, make connections, and problem-solve across a variety of contexts and settings.
A HEALTHY BELIEF ECOLOGY
LwCC is the only SEL curriculum grounded in Belief Ecology. Belief Ecology is a set of beliefs, values, and attitudes based on an individual’s knowledge, skills, and dispositions that help motivate and guide their behavior. This intrapersonal awareness influences one’s ability and desire to deploy learned social and emotional skills, while encouraging a growth mindset, improved self-efficacy and openness in children.
THE 10 PRINCIPLES OF CREATIVITY
The 10 Principles of Creativity and their Mantras are the pillars of our program. Embedded across all academic content, they provide a consistent, constructive vocabulary for educators to use in order to create a positive climate and culture in the learning environment.
AUTHENTIC
My Ideas Come From Who I Am
EXPRESSIVE
I Can Share My Feelings In Different Ways
RESOURCEFUL
I Can Make Something From Nothing
INTUITIVE
I Trust MySelf And What Feels Right To Me
CURIOUS
I Like To Learn New Things And Try Out New Ideas
PRESENT
I Pay Attention To MySelf And My World
UNCONVENTIONAL
I Can Do Things In Unexpected Ways
INVENTIVE
I Come Up With And Use Good
Ideas In All Parts Of My Life
PATIENT
I Know My Best Ideas Take Time
INSPIRED
I Get Ideas From My Every Day Life And World
AUTHENTIC
My ideas come from who I am
EXPRESSIVE
I can share my feelings in different ways
RESOURCEFUL
I can make something from nothing
INTUITIVE
I trust myself and what feels right to me
CURIOUS
I like to learn new things and try out new ideas
PRESENT
I pay attention to myself and my world
UNCONVENTIONAL
I can do things in unexpected ways
INVENTIVE
I come up with and use good ideas in all parts of my life
PATIENT
I know my best ideas take time
INSPIRED
I get ideas from my every day life and world
WHY IT MATTERS
Creative confidence helps us as individuals and helps the organizations we’re a part of. Legendary Stanford psychology professor Albert Bandura has shown that “our belief systems affect our actions, goals, and perception. Individuals who come to believe that they can effect change in their lives and worlds are more likely to accomplish what they set out to do. [They] set their sights higher, try harder, persevere longer, and show more resilience in the face of [adversity].” (Source: “Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All” by David Kelley and Tom Kelley)
