The North East Creativity Collaborative’s portfolio of reflections, insights, and ideas captures the story of 12 schools who worked together from 2021-2024, alongside Creativity Culture England as their partner.
The portfolio offers valuable reading for anyone interested in:
💡 Teaching for creativity
💡 Collaborative professional learning
💡 Schools as learning organisations
💡 Leadership and systems change
💡 Young people as champions of creativity
The portfolio serves as a compass rather than a map for other schools, collaboratives, or trusts considering their own journey in teaching for creativity, inspiring you to put the North East Creativity Collaborative’s learning from the field into action.
‘We cannot expect children to be creative and brave if we are not brave/don’t take risks ourselves.’
>>Download NECC's portfolio of reflections, insights and ideas here
Purpose
This portfolio of reflections, insights and ideas has two purposes. Firstly it documents in an open and transparent way some of the key learning we have undertaken as a collaborative throughout the last three years as well as some of the individual learning at a school level. Secondly, we hope the portfolio might serve as a compass rather than a a map to other schools, collaboratives or trusts who are considering embarking on their own teaching for creativity journey, inspiring you to put our learning from the field into practice.
Structure
We have structured the portfolio with The Creative Habits Framework, showing how we have lived out the five core creative habits: collaborative, imaginative, inquisitive, disciplined and persistent. These habits are fundamental to nurturing creativity in children and young people and school staff and are the foundation of the North East Creativity Collaborative. Although presented in a numbered sequence the portfolio can be read in any order that you like.