CREATIVE practice #9: Include the hands -- engage visual arts in the curriculum and make sure students know how to change a tire. Put books in the hands of students.

Hint:  What will happen if you try to loosen the
nut while the car's end is suspended in air?

In a school in Hollywood, Florida, the students need to swim fifty feet and show that they know how to change a tire.


Key question:  When do you start removing the nuts from the bolts that hold the hub in place?  Before you start raising the car or after the car is raised up?

The aim of this practice is to engage the mind through the hands.  Enrique Gonzalez, former principal of Highland Park High School, recommends a book called "The Hands." 

The Teen Liberation Handbook

There might be other books that might stimulate creative practices.  Allow books into your room that challenge the status quo ... why not put three books that you disagree with on the table next to the classics of Dan Pink and Malcolm Gladwell?

Putting together a shelf might be the most creative thing that the student does... because the work leads to other things to learn.