Ken Robinson will present Building Creative Schools at the next Chattanooga 2.0 Talk on May 9, from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Howard School, 2500 South Market St. This event is free and open to the public.
Mr. Robinson’s latest book, “Creative Schools,” is focused on how to transform the country’s education system. He advocates for an end to the outmoded industrial educational system and proposes a highly personalized, organic approach that draws on today’s unprecedented technological and professional resources to engage all students, develop their love of learning and enable them to face the real challenges of the twenty-first century.
The cost to attend is free and registration is available at http://bit.ly/1TjB5lZ. For more information email info@chatt2.org.
Mr. Ken Robinson is "one of the world’s most influential voices in education," and his 2006 TED Talk, entitled “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” is the most viewed in the organization’s history. In 2011, he was listed as “one of the world’s elite thinkers on creativity and innovation” by Fast Company magazine and was ranked among the Thinkers50 list of the world’s top business thought leaders.
Chattanooga 2.0 is a community-led movement to transform educational opportunities and workforce preparedness across Hamilton County by 2025. Learn more at www.chatt2.org or on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @Chattanooga2pt0.