Creativity

EdLeader21 defines creativity as...

Think Creatively

• Use a wide range of idea creation techniques (such as brainstorming).

• Create new and worthwhile ideas (both incremental and radical concepts).

• Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate their own ideas in order to improve and maximize creative efforts.

Work Creatively with Others

• Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to others effectively.

• Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives; incorporate group input and feedback into the work.

• Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real world limits to adopting new ideas.

Demonstrate Courage to Explore

• View Failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that creativity and innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of small success and frequent mistakes.

Implement Innovations

• Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the field in which the innovation will occur.

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