CCCI: A Framework for Creating a Culture of Creativity & Imagination written and designed by Amanda Steinhardt

The purpose of this document is to introduce the Curriculum Framework CCCI . CCCI stands for :Creating a Culture of Creativity and Imagination, and is intended to inform, and educate, in how, and why, Creativity and Imagination can become the overriding Culture within a school, and how the development of Creative and Imaginative behaviours in our students, and teachers can be mapped, over time.  

Currently in schools, Creativity and Imagination is largely forgotten, there is more of the “what is” and not enough of the  “what if”. We need to be encouraging our students more in the development of their “possibility thinking”.

        Creativity, Imagination, and Innovation should be a priority within Education, however to achieve this, there needs to be a change of mindset within a school, a change of behaviour, a change of ‘habit and habitat’. It involves a restructuring, and rethinking, of how ‘we as teachers, teach’, and how our ‘students as learners, learn’. As Sir Ken Robinson (2013) says, we need to be “changing Education Paradigms”.