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A call to creativity : writing, reading, and inspiring students in an age of standardization / Luke Reynolds ; foreword by Jim Burke.

by Reynolds, Luke, 1980-

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New York : Teachers College Press, c2012.

Creative ability -- Study and teaching.

Motivation in education.

9780807753064 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

0807753068 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

9780807753057 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

080775305X (pbk. : acid-free paper)

Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)

xi, 105 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Foreword / Jim Burke -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Seeing the possible -- 1: Creativity Crawls Through The Cracks: -- Your (hypothetical?) life as a data-driven English teacher -- Something more -- Rejecting dualisms -- Brief history of nearly everything (or, at least, of curriculum in America) -- Moving forward (the crowd goes wild) -- Microcosm for the marriage of standards and creativity (model lesson: the Boston photograph) -- Guiding questions -- 2: Reading And Responding Like A Human Being: -- Rubrics with holes? A case in point -- It's okay to say "soul" in school -- Creative literary analysis (or why I love Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore) -- Nontraditional book responses and the thesis essay, revisited -- Conclusions -- Guiding questions -- 3: Play's The Thing: Writing As Creative And Rigorous: -- Can we do this in school? -- Interlude of theoretical underpinning (Cue Mozart) -- More to the mix -- Short assignments -- Ridiculous and free as a bridge to pearls of wisdom: an assignment in focus -- Conclusions -- Guiding questions -- 4: Doing Outside The Box: -- Creativity beyond the classroom -- Making the classroom anthology manageable, cheap, and effective -- Small ways to make big connections outside the walls -- Conclusions -- Guiding questions -- 5: Beyond Reading And Writing: How To Teach Students To See, Think, And Feel: -- Compassion -- Imagination -- Trust through experience -- Getting (physically) outside the school and into the world's classroom -- Conclusions -- Guiding questions -- Final reflections: Agony and the sweat -- Appendix A: Boston photograph -- Appendix B: Love and marriage? -- Appendix C: Considering Janie, considering you, considering love -- Appendix D: Something left to love? -- Appendix E: Paideia (or Socratic) seminar -- Appendix F: Socratic seminar: Skin I'm in / Sharon G Flake -- Appendix G: Marriage of passion and purpose -- Appendix H: My ideal country -- Appendix I: I am because -- Appendix J: Do you live like a crab? -- Appendix K: Losing sight of the shore -- Appendix L: Aaaaaaahhhhhhh! -- Appendix M: Mr Reynold's (things to look out for while you write and revise or else he'll make lots of huge pen marks all over your page to alert you to them) list of writing rules -- Appendix N: Writing authentic dialogue -- Appendix O: Brief, personal writing prompts -- Appendix P: Listening to random thoughts -- Appendix Q: Introduction to anthology project -- Appendix R: Community-forming activities -- References -- Index -- About the author.

Overview: In this age of standardization, many English teachers are unsure about how to incorporate creative writing and thinking into their classroom. In a fresh new voice, Luke Reynolds emphasizes that "creativity in our lives as teachers and in the lives of our students is one of our most vital needs in the 21st century." Based on his own journey as an English teacher, A Call to Creativity is a practical guide that shows teachers how they can encourage and support students' creativity in the English/language arts classroom. The book offers both the inspiration and practical steps teachers need to engage their students through a variety of hands-on projects and worksheets that can be used immediately to insert creativity into any standards-based curriculum.

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