When I worked as a secondary school teacher, creativity wasn’t an add-on. It was the job. Lessons invited curiosity, risk-taking, and connection across subjects. There was structure, yes, but within it, space to play with ideas. That belief has never left me.
In higher education, I often hear creativity spoken about as something for the arts, or something that happens only after the “real work” is done. But what if we took it seriously from the start?
In this short piece for Advance HE, I reflect on the creative roots of my teaching practice and ask what HE might learn from school classrooms. It’s part of a wider question I keep coming back to:
This works in school. How might we do something similar in HE?
You can read the blog post here:
Creative Futures Innovation Toolkit 
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