Description
Award-winning educator, Genein Letford, shares how Intercultural Creativity®, which integrates cultural competence with creative thinking, is strengthened through arts integration. Her brain-backed curriculum ideas are easy to implement and increase engagement while advancing creative thinking for both the teacher and the students.
In this 45-minute course, you will learn:
- How to identify visual art elements and their characteristics
- How to implement visual art elements into other content areas
- How to increase students’ engagement and perspective-shifting
- How to incorporate creative thinking strategies with art foundations into general education content
Other courses in this series:
Intercultural Creativity for Classrooms and Beyond
Start with Art: Music Integration for the Gifted
EQ and Emotional Granularity for the Gifted
Presenter Bio
As the 2019 LA Lakers Business Woman and the 2015 CA Charter Teacher of the Year, Genein is a national thought leader and creator of the concept of ‘Intercultural Creativity®’. She is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer of CAFFE Strategies, LLC, a consulting, coaching, and training company that trains educational leaders and teachers to create sustainable organizational equity and inclusion strategies within their classrooms while unleashing their innovative thinking for themselves and in their students.
Her 7 Gems of Intercultural Creativity® is a leading framework that encourages corporations in their diversity and inclusion development while developing critical cognitive tools for creative thinking. Her first book, From Debt to Destiny: Creating Financial Freedom from the Inside Out connects creative thinking to financial agility and was an international bestseller in 5 finance categories. Her next book, 7 Gems of Intercultural Creativity: Connecting, Creating and Innovating Across Cultural Lines is due to come out this fall. She recently published her first children’s book I AM CREATIVE! with her 3-year-old son, Shawn Letford. Genein believes creative thinking thrives best in an inclusive environment and she is often called ‘America’s Creative Coach’ for her work in reigniting intercultural creativity within our workforce.
Kevin – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –
Nice intro, needs more.
Elizabeth – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
This gives you practical ideas for implementing art in the classroom.
Ronda – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This was a very useful course that encourages teachers to creatively use strategies to encourage higher level thinking and increase student engagement.
Tami – Prince George County Public Schools (verified owner) –
could have been more in depth
Julie – CARLISLE LOCAL (verified owner) –
Great ideas for using art in the classroom
Michelle – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Great Course!
Patricia – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Great ideas shared to help incorporate art within the lessons.
trista – CRESTVIEW LOCAL – VAN WERT COUNTY (verified owner) –
Great way to bring different learning techniques into the classroom.
Tara – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this course. I do use aspects of these studies within my teaching in the classroom. The graphic that describes the Gems of Intercultural Creativity is amazing. I am going to print this resource to use with my planning.
Kristen – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas and love the Gems!