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www.exploringcreativity.org
Impact Report2002 – to date
Performance Overview • 160 Exploring Creativity In Depth programs since 2002 • 4,500 students and 185 teachers • 25 schools, most from priority neighbourhoods (inner
suburbs) of Toronto (Toronto District and Toronto Catholic District School Boards)
• 10 programs for children with special needs • Pilot programs in Picton (Prince Edward County)• 21 qualified artist/teachers staff the programs• 150 parent-volunteers provided 800 volunteer hours
Performance Overview • 16 teachers’ workshops• 14 shows of student drawings and creative writing at the
NeilsonPark Creative Centre (6), Arts Etobicoke Gallery (2), and in schools (7)
• Presentations at conferences in Britain, U.S.A., South America and Canada
• New programs online in fall 2011:– Nature and Imagination Through Art and Science– In-school ECiD for grades 6-8– ECiD for Secondary Students “at risk”
Student feedback on program
Feel more happy
Feel more excited
Feel more interested
Feel more confident
Feel more creative
Would like to do more arts/crafts
Learned about others in their class
Learned about themselves
Learned about arts
Gave positive feedback
Teachers observe positive changes in students
Express empathy
Social skills
Ability to pay attention
Confidence & self esteem
Desire to engage in art
Use of creative imagination
Documentation• 3,000 feedback forms from students, teachers and
parent-volunteers • 60 post-program interviews with selected teachers• Selected student artworks and creative writing archived• 25 longitudinal profiles with teachers and students• 2 Assessments• 4 videos: (1) 30 min. documentary; (2) 10 minute doc.;
(3) ECiD at a school Festival of the Arts; (4) Teacher Interviews
Documentation
A. The Place I Used to See. B. The Magical Land of Dreams
Girl, Grade 8
Documentation
A. Gone unnoticed. Alone. Misunderstood. Depressed. Nowhere to go. Lifeless. Gone.
B. Complexity & Depth of THE MIND. The mind has endless possibilities. Impossible in Nothing.
Boy, Grade 8
Testimonial: Teacher I• 2002: teacher without background in art gave 100 mins. per
weekly cycle for the arts. • Brought her classes to the ECiD several times, attended
teachers’ workshop • 2011: gives 210 mins. for Visual Art, Music, Dance and Drama,
plus 240 mins. for integrating arts with Math, Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies.
• Quadrupled time for arts in her timetable• Enjoys teaching more than ever
Testimonial: Teacher IThis teacher said the ECiD program showed her the value of:
• Non-directed creativity• Integrating the arts in all subject areas• Students have opportunity to feel and be successful• Arts programming meets the learning styles and
strengths of all students• More time for creative activities makes teaching
more enjoyable
Testimonial: Teacher II
A grade six teacher : • “Students and teacher after experiencing the
program go back to school and everyday life retaining an unspoken connection on a deeper level almost as if on a soulful level. Greater respect for each other and their vulnerability = Trust.”
Testimonial: Students I• Boy, Grade 2: “My art makes me feel peaceful
because of the colours I used. My art is saying welcome to my world! I think I am a good artist because I drew this picture.”
• Girl, Grade 5: “In my mind I wonder what’s there,/ Miracles, dreams, all about me./ My imagination flows through this delicate system./. . . All my own for me to hold,/ My mind a beautiful thing.”
Testimonials: Students II• Boy, Grade 7: “My imagination showed me
something I did not know and I couldn’t describe, so I drew it out.”
• Girl, Grade 7: “I learned I can put my imagination on paper.”
• Boy, Grade 8: “This artwork expresses one’s creativity and imagination. It shows anyone can do anything.”
Testimonials: Students IIIGrade 8 male student, third time:
“This trip made me feel that I should be a artist instead of a engineer. Every time I come [on] the trip and make a picture, everyone in my class and also my group that I share my picture loved it. My group wanted to just go in the picture and explore the new world they saw in my picture.” Dec. 2010.
Testimonial: Educators IOn Clarkson Report, “My Mind a Beautiful Thing”
• “Education is all about releasing the imagination and encouraging creativity. This Report . . . attempts to get at the meaning of education.” – John Ralston Saul, essayist and novelist.
• “I thought the Report excellent. . . I do hope it will have appropriate responses from those with power to make changes.” – Kieran Egan, Prof. of Education, Simon Fraser University;
Director, Imagination in Education Research Group.
NEW PROGRAMS
Five minutes of free drawing with or without listening to music:focuses attention, calms feelings and tunes up mind and body in preparation for sustained attention and cognitive effort.
NEW PROGRAMS
An experience of nature and the creative process for grades 4 to 8. A Nature Walk and a 20-minute “Solo” in a park, woodland, or ravine, followed by sculpting in clay.
NEW PROGRAMS
ECiD-SS. A ten-week, arts enrichment, rite of passage program for students who lack demonstration of academic success and are referred by their educational team.
Funders and partners