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Get Their Gears Turning: Implementing Creative Learning Strategies

By Elisabeth Wilborn, posted on Oct 29, 2026

My overarching goal was for these children to be able to take inspiration from their own lives and to create personally meaningful works of art. This had worked well with my fifth graders, but wasn’t successful with my second graders. These students needed more context, more scaffolding, and tighter constraints to get their ideas flowing. We needed a structure that they could plug into. But what? Cue our school’s social and emotional development curriculum: Character Strong.

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