E300
The 4 Branches of Creativity Most School Leaders Ignore with Susan Riley
From Better Leaders Better Schools · Hosted by Daniel Bauer
Episode summary
In this episode of Better Leaders Better Schools: Creativity in schools isn't about talent, it's a system. Budget cuts and constraints make your team more creative, not less. Creativity in schools gets treated like an elective — something reserved for art class and cut the moment budgets tighten.
Original publisher description
Creativity in schools isn't about talent, it's a system. Budget cuts and constraints make your team more creative, not less.Creativity in schools gets treated like an elective — something reserved for art class and cut the moment budgets tighten. Creativity researcher and author Susan Riley joins the show to make the case that creativity is a trainable system every school leader can build, not a talent some people have and others don't. Susan breaks creativity into four branches — creative skills, creative application, creative thinking, and creative expression — and explains why most schools only ever touch one or two of them. She also unpacks why AI is raising the stakes on creative and critical thinking, how daily habits build creative capacity over time, and why a constraint like a 20% budget cut can sharpen a team's creative response instead of shutting it down. If you're a school leader trying to build a campus experience that doesn't run on autopilot, this conversation gives you a framework and a set of practices to start with tomorrow. THINK THROUGH YOUR NEXT LEADERSHIP MOVE: https://myprincipalcoach.com — your AI-powered principal coach, available 24/7. ⌚️ TIMESTAMPS:...