Creativity Network

Leadership

Nan Hathaway, Chair

Wendy Leader, Chair Elect

Wendy Leader, Convention Program Chair

Cynthia Dwyer, Newsletter Editor

Mission

The Creativity Network believes that creativity is a basic and necessary function of healthy and productive individuals, and that the health and productivity of a society is reflective of the degree of creativity among its citizenry. Therefore, it is the commitment of this Network to initiate, develop, and implement practices and materials that will promote the creative potential of all persons. Specifically, the Network undertakes activities that: 1) promote the recognition and acceptance of, and the commitment to, creativity as a critical area of giftedness; 2) promote research in the area of creativity, as well as creative approaches to research; 3) provide practical strategies and activities to foster creativity; and 4) increase the public's awareness and acceptance of creative thinking as an essential skill.

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If you like what you've read and want to be a member of the Creativity Network, we'd love to have you! You must be a member of NAGC before you can become a network member, so click here to find out how.

Current Newsletter - Spring 2010 

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The Creativity Network sponsors a newsletter for current Network members and those who want to keep up with new research and curriculum articles.  If you have a potential article, book review, lesson plan, or other creative idea that you think would fit our mission statement, please e-mail Nan Hathaway. 

2010  E. Paul Torrance Award

Creativity Network members can now vote for the 2010 E. Paul Torrance Award winner.  Click here for the ballot.  Return to kellersm@buffalostate.edu  by May 30th.

Click here for more information on the Torrance Award. 

Recent E. Paul Torrance Award Winners

 2009 - Dr. Bonnie Cramond is a Professor of Gifted and Creative Education at the University of Georgia. She served as director of the Torrance Center for Creativity and is on many editorial boards, including the Journal of Creative Behavior and Creativity Research Journal. Her research interests are in creativity assessment and the nurturance of children’s creativity. She has published numerous papers, chapters, and books on creativity; supported visiting foreign scholars’ creativity research; taught creativity for children, graduate students, educators, and parents; organized creativity training seminars nationally and internationally. She served on the NAGC board of directors since 2003 and received the Torrance Creativity Award from the GAGC in 2004.

  2008 - James C. Kaufman, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the California State University at San Bernardino, where he directs the Learning Research Institute. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in Cognitive Psychology in 2001. Kaufman’s research broadly focuses on nurturing and encouraging creativity.  He is specifically interested in creativity’s role in fairness; everyday creativity; increasing creativity in the classroom; and the structure and assessment of creativity. He is also interested in related topics such as intelligence, personality, motivation, and thinking styles.  Kaufman is the author or editor of 16 books either published or in press.  These include Creativity 101 (Springer, 2009); Essentials of Creativity Assessment (with Jonathan Plucker and John Baer; Wiley, 2008), International Handbook of Creativity (with Robert Sternberg; Cambridge, 2006), and Applied Intelligence (with Sternberg and Elena Grigorenko; Cambridge, 2008).  He has published more than 140 papers, chapters, and reviews. His research has been featured and discussed in CNN, NPR, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, and the BBC. He has traveled around the world talking about the power of creativity, keynoting in Taiwan, Qatar, Korea, Spain, France, and other places.  Kaufman is a founding co-editor of the official journal for the American Psychological Association’s Division 10, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.  He is also the Associate Editor of Psychological Assessment and the Journal of Creative Behavior. He is also the editor of the International Journal of Creativity and Problem Solving and he is the Series Editor of the “Psych 101” series from Springer Publishing.  He received the 2003 Daniel E. Berlyne Award from APA’s Division 10, the 2008 E. Paul Torrance Award from the National Association of Gifted Children, and the 2009 Early Career Research Award from the Western Psychological Association.

 2007 - Dr. Jonathan Plucker 

2006 - Dr. Robert Sternberg 

Dr. Robert Sternberg, Dean of Tufts' School of Arts and Sciences and Director of the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies and Expertise(PACE) Center received the E. Paul Torrance Award at Creativity Night on Friday, November 3rd at the NAGC national conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. The E. Paul Torrance Award is given each year since 1988 to acknowledge and reward significant contributions of individuals and groups whose work facilitates the enhancement and spread of creativity, especially among gifted children, and who are themselves creative thinkers. The award carries the name of the man who probably more than any other individual has promoted the values and behavior the Creativity Division wishes to honor. Dr. Sternberg, a past president of the American Psychological Association is the author of over 1000 books and articles and has received numerous awards for his work.  He has made significant contributions to our understanding of creativity, intelligence, leadership, and wisdom.  Under Dr. Sternberg’s leadership, work at the PACE center continues to advance theory, research and application of the notion of intelligence as modifiable and capable of development throughout the life span. 

More Information

Torrance Legacy Creative Writing Awards
NAGC co-sponsored this contest that invited students to submit their best creative work to help celebrate the legacy of educator/creativity pioneer Dr. E. Paul Torrance.  Over 200 submissions were received this year.

2009 First Place Overall Winners

Top Prize - Poetry
Bethany Dilda
“Refuge of the Pines”
 Branson, Colorado - 12th grade

Top Prize - Stories
Sam Teeter
 “Hamartia”
Topeka, Kansas - 11th grade

Information on the 2010 awards will be available soon.

From NAGC's ERIC Digest Archives:

"Creativity in Young Children"

Full List of ERIC Digest Archives