Zing! Seven Creativity Practices for Educators and Students

Cultivate your own creativity and the creative potential of all your students!


Inventive teaching is an art form that enriches lives and transforms teachers and students. This beautifully written guide offers seven powerful practices for personal creativity and professional inventiveness. For each practice, author Pat Mora proposes a symbol and presents parallel exercises for teachers and students. Evocatively written in the form of letters to teachers and librarians, this book:


Helps educators access their creative selves and, in the process, become better teachers 
Nurtures students in expressing themselves through writing and other creative pursuits 
Includes activities at the end of each chapter