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Imagination in Teaching and Learning

Kieran Egan

University of Chicago Press, 1992

It is widely believed that a child's imagination ought to be
stimulated and developed in education. Yet, few teachers
understand what imagination is or how it lends itself to
practical methods and techniques that can be used easily in
classroom instruction. In this book, Kieran Egan—winner of
the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for his work on
imagination—takes up where his Teaching as Story Telling
left off, offering practical help for teachers who want to
engage, stimulate, and develop the imaginative and learning
processes of children between the ages of eight to fifteen.

This book is not about unusually imaginative students and
teachers. Rather, it is about the typical student's
imaginative life and how it can be stimulated in learning,
how the average teacher can plan to achieve this aim, and how
the curriculum can be structured to help achieve this aim.
Slim and determinedly practical, this book contains a wealth
of concrete examples of curriculum design and teaching
techniques structured to appeal specifically to children in
their middle school years.

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Incubating Creativity at Your Library

A Sourcebook for Connecting with Communities

Laura Damon-Moore

American Library Association, 2019

Creativity needs a platform. As technology consultant David Weinberger puts it, “A platform provides resources that lets other people build things.” The library is an ideal platform, and in this book Batykefer and Damon-Moore, creators of the Library as Incubator Project, share the experiences of numerous creative library workers and artists who are making it happen. Their stories will show you how to move beyond merely responding to community needs towards actively building a platform with your community. And best of all, you don’t need to start from scratch—rather, you amplify what’s already working. Filled with ideas and initiatives that can be customized to suit your library and its community, this book

discusses the four elements (Resources, Invitations, Partnerships & Engagement, and Staff) and the two lenses (Community-Led and Evaluation) of the Creative Library platform;
outlines six steps for surveying your community’s artistic landscape;
gives methods for expanding partnerships and connections with individuals and organizations through exploration, hands-on learning, and engagement with the community;
shares perspectives on the “ideal library” from several artists, with three examples of artist-in-residence programs;
offers examples of community invitations in action, such as the Pittsburgh Fiberarts Guild workshops on creating flowers using recycled materials;
shows how to use “orphan photos” from your archives for creative inspiration;
advises on using qualitative evaluations to effectively “weed” your initiatives; and
shares tips for encouraging library staff to express their creativity, turning avocations into library initiatives like Handmade Crafternoons, the Yahara Music Library, or BOOKLESS.

By building on existing elements at your library and filling in the gaps with community-driven additions, your library can be a space that cultivates creativity in both its users and staff.

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Inspired Collaboration

Ideas for Discovering and Applying Your Potential

Dorothy Stoltz

American Library Association, 2016

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Inspiring Teens, Tweens, and Families to Make a Difference in the World

Programming to Advance the Sustainable Development Goals

Amanda Moss Struckmeyer

American Library Association, 2025

The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) identified by the United Nations encompass an ambitious range of issues—world hunger, gender equality, and the climate crisis, to name just a few. Though timely and urgent, creating programming for these topics may feel daunting, and that’s where this book comes in. Sharing ideas and inspiration for book clubs, hands-on STEAM projects, movie discussions, guest speaker events, and much more, Struckmeyer offers accessible entry points for exploration of each SDG. And they're all easily customizable for either public library or school library settings. Readers will discover

programs and activities related to such topics as good health and well-being, ending poverty, peace and justice, responsible consumption and production, decent work, and clean water and sanitation;
ideas perfect for multi-age audiences (families), tweens, and teens that can be tailored for different group sizes, programming spaces, budgets, and time frames;
a plethora of flexible, cost-effective passive programs that patrons can engage in at any time;
guidance on outreach opportunities for fostering partnerships with local experts and guest speakers; and
pointers on additional and supporting resources including books, videos, and websites.

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