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CREATIVE practice #1:  Personalized Learning.  (page 218)


CREATIVE practice #2:   Move away from grades.  See Joe Bower and his crusade.   (page 171)

CREATIVE practice #3:    Show students how to REFLECT on their learning. Stonefields School in New Zealand

CREATIVE practice #4:  Keep asking questions  (Peter Cookson)

CREATIVE practice #5:  Let learning take place outside of schools (Peter Cookson)

CREATIVE practice #6:  Let teachers teach several subjects (allowing more contact with individual students)   LINK   (page 145)

CREATIVE practice #7:  Read excerpts from Sir Ken Robinson's reports with students and teachers  LINK    (page 104)
CREATIVE practice #8:  Begin with the End in Mind.
CREATIVE practice #9:  Include the hands -- engage students with visual arts and make sure students know how to change a tire.
CREATIVE practice #10:  Eating with students.  (John Corlette)
CREATIVE practice #11:    Digital Portfolios.   Look at what High Tech High can do  TinyURL.com/ExampleDP   (page 128, 146)
CREATIVE practice #12:   Take care of the brain (Dr. Daniel Amen's recommendations), the right fat, plenty of sleep and reducing Automatic Negative Thoughts with ANTeaters   Link
CREATIVE practice #13:  Invest in "walls that teach."  Learn about the "Third Teacher" from TheThirdTeacherPlus.com.   (page 193)
CREATIVE practice #14:  Put lessons on YouTube and join the 1-percent (see Vsauce)  (page 171)
CREATIVE practice #15:   Time is a variable.   Let students re-take tests and re-submit essays.  Work for mastery.  See Soundcloud.com (Alfred de la Rosa, Miami Arts Charter School and Dr. Fischler)
CREATIVE practice #16:  Create a MakerSpace  (see the article in EduTopia.org)
Design a MakerSpace <<< Edutopia.org  

CREATIVE practice #17:  "Show respect to everyone you meet." (John Corlette)  
CREATIVE practice #18:  Let the same teacher teach the same students for four years in a row.  (See Big Picture Learning)  (page 148-150)




The numbers on this list are arbitrary.  Creative Practices can be introduced in any order.  Get started.  They are in the order that the compiler encountered the ideas.  Page numbers

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