Elsie Ritzenhein is a creativity expert, author, speaker and respected pioneer in leadership consulting. Co-author of Generative Leadership/Shaping New Futures for Today’s Schools (2008), she has held a variety of educational roles for over 50 years. Elsie’s primary interest is generative thinking and action, and she is developing courses to challenge the status quo in positive, provocative and creative ways.
Subjects we talk about in Part 1of our conversation:
What is Generative Leadership?
What a parent can do to shift a school’s perspective on the teaching process
Believe in your child’s creativity
Provide as many opportunities as possible for your kids
Ask questions & LISTEN
It’s possible to teach math & science with creativity
Creativity is more than playing with ideas
The playground metaphor
Nothing that’s creative comes from the outside in
Creativity can be terrifying to today’s teachers
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Don’t miss Part 2 of our discussion with Elsie!:
These same ideas around creativity applied to the corporate world
Helicopter parenting
The conversation is critical
There has to be action as a result of the conversation
We’re not asking the right questions at any level
Women now have the capacity to use their feminine voices in ways that they never could before
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