Session One - TeachMeet

Engaging Leaders: making schools places for creativity to flourish

The speakers

Bill Lucas is Professor of Learning and Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning (CRL). He founded CRL in 2008, together with Prof. Guy Claxton. Bill is also the Creativity Collaboratives Peer Network Lead.

Emily Reid is the Assistant Head at St Bernard’s RC Primary school in Ellesmere Port and Project Lead of C Change, the Creativity Collaborative network in the North West.


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Session One – Engaging Leaders


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Useful links and further reading

Who are the Creativity Collaboratives?

C-Change website (North West Creativity Collaborative)

North East Creativity Collaboratives - Young Creativity Champions

School without walls article

OECD i-Library - Child participation in decision making

Maker {Futures} - The Maker{Futures} programme will enable you to set up makerspaces or run maker sessions in a range of spaces, providing playful and creative ways to develop digital and STEM skills through a STEAM approach.

Global Institute of Creative Thinking