"Failing scores prompt province to study if creativity and critical thinking more important today"
(Hamilton Spectator, Andrea Gordon, September 6, 2017). I often wonder if schools are measuring what should be measured? I also wonder if what we measures affects the mental health and well-being of students. Today's article in the Spectator reveals that Ontario will review how students are tested. The provincial government will consider updating the scope of what is measured and revealed on a report card. People for Education and their call for broader measures of success was introduced to me a few years ago and I can't get it out of my mind. In addition to literacy and mathematics, the organization suggests measuring mental and physical health (together, I might add), creativity and innovation, social-emotional development, democracy and citizenship, and school climate and quality learning environments. This has be thinking about how to measure creativity.... Broader Measures of Success gives one metric used in Europe where students can recall and reflect on pieces of art they have seen in gallery visits. I wonder about our TLLP proposal and if we should steer it toward students and educators assessing their own creativity. Today, we meet, as a team with the Centre3 education and outreach coordinators. I look forward to building a community relationship with them and learning more about art and artists in Hamilton. Perhaps, they have some suggestions on how to measure creativity!
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