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Take the PLC through or to a disruption event that would get them out of their comfort zone

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Understand root causes of animosity and or disruption in the culture. Create a shared vision and a path of action forward .

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Center the PLC around a disruptive event and bind the team together, pull out and elicit share what elements of culture they want to build, create and keep and what areas of culture should be discarded and does suit them well

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Walk through an ECDT sprint that addresses the problem directly but has a focus on incorporating creativity

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The leadership team of the school could participate in an EA from MSL

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Search for the + button in the bottom of the right corner to share your solution.

Task: Provide a creative solution for how to improve school culture during a PLC with less than 4 resources.

Use that imagination!

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It is hard to think of a human ability that has had a more profoundly positive effect on the world than creativity. This one human capacity has generated so much. It is individual and universal, intellectual as well as artful, born of inspiration and made with determination. Distinctly human but often misunderstood, creativity is fundamental to life. At Landor, it is our life's work to constantly build our creative capabilities in service of our clients' businesses. Here are some things we've learned along the way.

1 Creativity is in everyone

Forget titles, job descriptions, and hierarchy-creativity is not a skill set, it's a mindset, an orientation that resists habitual thinking and invites courageous exploration. To be human is to be creative.
Richard Montañez had been a janitor in a California Frito-Lay plant for almost 20 years when he was inspired by a message from the company's president to act like an owner. While eating a cup of corn spiced with cheese and chiles, he came up with an idea for a new flavor. He persuaded executives to give it a try, and Flamin' Hot Cheetos quickly became Frito-Lay's top-selling snack.
2 Creativity is paradoxical

The contradictions of creativity contribute to the mystery surrounding it. Creativity is intelligent, yet requires a willingness to ask questions and be open to possibilities. It is inspired by playfulness, but disciplined toward an end. Passionate but objective, energetic but reflective, individual as well as collaborative-these are just a few of creativity's paradoxes.
The wayfinding system at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children uses playfulness to enhance its functionality. Each building and floor has been marked with a distinctive color and habitat from the natural world, stretching from the ocean (lower ground floor) to the skies (upper floor). The cheerful illustrations provide an easy guide for families to navigate the complicated hospital.
3 Creativity is constructive

Creativity is generative, productive, and open to many alternatives. But at its heart, it seeks to make a difference. Creativity values and celebrates imagination and mandates the practical application of its output.
Because a reported two million children under age five die from illnesses brought on by lack of proper hygiene, Global Handwashing Day was established to encourage hand washing with soap, which is proven to prevent disease and save lives. The program's colorful figurines wordlessly and cheerfully communicate this message to children around the world, across multiple languages and cultures. Now, over 200 million people in 100 countries celebrate this day and this lifesaving behavior.
4 Creativity is courageous

Creativity values imagination over image. It requires a willingness to let go of certainties and think expansively; it also demands a strong dose of determination and self-belief. History proves that new ideas and concepts are often met with apathy, ridicule, or even hostility. This is why courage and creativity are brothers.
Renowned architect Frank Gehry wants his buildings to be experienced, not just admired. He deliberately breaks architectural conventions to create work that elicits an emotional reaction. Often greeted initially with resistance, his buildings defy the rules of engineering and lend themselves to diverse interpretations. To protest the construction of his Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, local people held vigils in the street; they hated it. Today, the museum is one of the most admired in contemporary architecture and everyone wants to be photographed in front.
5 Creativity is perceptive

Seeing and perceiving are two different things. Sight is visual and concrete; perception is individual and interpretive. Highly creative people have a well-developed ability to perceive things in new ways, detect patterns, and make connections that others may miss.
Kim Kiroic is a keen observer of global culture. The Chinese footwear designer creates shoes that blend fashions of East and West, from Western-style sneakers with open toes, reflecting a Chinese preference for sandals, to more conceptual Western Oxford-style shoes with Qing Dynasty-style tall, sculptural wooden heels.

6 Creativity can be inspired or suppressed

Environments that allow freedom to explore, exposure to stimulus, and time to reflect inspire individual and collective creativity. Imaginative thinking can be suppressed by excessive rules and regulations, siloed thinking, stigmatization of failure, hyper-focus on efficiency, and the elevation of conformity over originality.
When Nike hired director Casey Neistat to create its latest commercial, Neistat threw out the preapproved script and took his team on a trip around the world. He filmed their journey and experiences and presented the footage as the ad. Although Nike hadn't approved this direction, it embraced "Make It Count." The ad became a viral hit with six million views in three weeks.
7 Creativity is childlike

Children tend to be less self-conscious than adults and this natural naïveté leads them to ask more questions and think more laterally. Adults' experience and expertise can lead them to prematurely shut down new routes of thinking. Creativity is often served when we "think like a kid," unfettered by all the reasons something might not work but inspired by what could be.
Pablo Picasso once said, "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child." Picasso was able to continually reinvent himself. Instead of being overly critical of his own ideas, he freed himself to sketch whatever struck his fancy. Unlike so many adults who become stifled by convention, Picasso discovered his right and will to be free-expressing himself unselfconsciously. Genius.
8 Creativity accepts ambiguity

Most human beings do not like ambiguity; it makes them uncomfortable. The hallmark of a creative thinker is a willingness to accept ambiguity, embrace discomfort, and focus on the promise of possibility. Rather than rush back to what is familiar, the creative mind lingers, trading comfort for potential.
Glass is traditionally a craft medium, yet most of Dale Chihuly's sculptures are neither utilitarian nor functional. His comfort with ambiguity challenges the modernist idea of beauty and the art world's definition of art. One of the first glass artists to use asymmetric designs in his work, Chihuly is an avant-garde pioneer whose work has paved the way for future glass artists.
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It is hard to think of a human ability that has had a more profoundly positive effect on the world than creativity. This one human capacity has generated so much. It is individual and universal, intellectual as well as artful, born of inspiration and made with determination.