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Penryn Creativity Collaborative, in partnership with CCE, Real Ideas, and the Chartered College, shares its evolving toolkit and reflections to support sustainable teaching for creativity and inspire wider educational communities.

Punchdrunk Enrichment creates immersive theatre experiences for schools and communities, using imaginative storytelling to inspire creativity, boost engagement, and support learning across the curriculum.

The North East Creativity Collaborative’s portfolio shares insights from 12 schools’ three-year journey (2021–2024) with Creativity Culture England, offering inspiration and guidance for others starting their own teaching for creativity journey.

"Creative Acts for Curious People" is a 2021 collection from Stanford’s d.school, curated by Sarah Stein Greenberg, offering practical, inspiring ideas from leading creative thinkers—highly recommended for educators and learners alike.

"Creative Partnerships in Practice" by David Parker reflects on a decade-long UK initiative that paired schools with creative professionals to foster student creativity, offering practical insights on ethos, pedagogy, and assessment for today's educators.

"Transforming Schools" by Miranda Jefferson and Michael Anderson highlights creativity, critical reflection, communication, and collaboration as essential skills for student success, offering insights from the Australian education system that are valuable for English educators.

"Teaching Creative Thinking" by Bill Lucas and Ellen Spencer presents a globally used model for fostering creativity in schools, offering effective pedagogical strategies and guidance on assessing creative thinking.

"Developing Creativity in the Primary School" is a practical and accessible guide that blends theory, research, and hands-on strategies to help teachers foster creativity across the curriculum, in themselves, their students, and their schools

Orison Carlile and Anne Jordan’s Approaches to Creativity provides a comprehensive, practical guide for embedding creativity in education, emphasizing the need for transformational leadership and a shared understanding of creativity across the whole school community.

The Durham Commission’s 2019 report calls for embedding creativity across all levels and subjects in education, defining it as essential to young people’s development, identity, and wellbeing, and outlining the conditions needed to foster it in schools.

Sir Ken Robinson urged a swift overhaul of education to foster creativity through eight key competencies before it's too late.