Fostering Creativity and Community in Educational Development

The chapter explores a program called creativity fellows that nurtures faculty members' creative practices, emphasizing the process of creativity over products to transform teaching practices and educational philosophies. It discusses playful exercises like creating symbolic animals with modeling clay to represent their relationship with creativity, encouraging faculty to embrace inefficiency and challenges in the creative process. The chapter also highlights the importance of building a community of support among faculty members through workshops focusing on first-year teaching techniques, supporting students, managing disruptions, and universal design for learning.