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Soraya Sablo Sutton, UC Berkeley School of Education and Woo Williams Zou, UC Berkeley School of Education and National Equity Project Note: This blog is an extension of the Episode 9 Cultivating Imagination podcast. “I often feel I am trapped inside someone else’s imagination, and I must engage my own imagination in order to break … Read more

By Sedigheh (Sedi) Mousavizadeh, MEd. student at Simon Fraser University in Educational Leadership Note: This blog is a response to Episode 5 of the Cultivating Imagination podcast. We often meet people who miss their past and happy childhoods or wish for a greater future. We all pray for a better upcoming year on New Year’s … Read more

by Heidi Wood, Indigenous Education Success, Culture & Curriculum Coordinator, Delta School District Note: This blog is an extension of the Episode 8 Cultivating Imagination podcast. Imaginative leadership holds a place in my heart where educators can bridge the worlds of Indigenous ways of being and pedagogy with the transformative possibilities of social and ecological … Read more

by Sandeep Kaur Glover, Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University Note: This blog is an extension of the Episode 8 Cultivating Imagination podcast. Since my invigorating podcast interview with Heidi Wood, I have been ruminating on the nourishing resonances of our conversation. As I pondered what to share with you for this blog, I … Read more

by Christina Velasco, Leadership Coach, San Francisco Unified School District Note: This blog is an extension of Episode 7 of the Cultivating Imagination podcast. Educational leaders who actively work for equity, excellence and social justice experience work-related stress and require spaces and strategies to support themselves and others. We need systems and structures to support … Read more

Mark Fettes, Director of the Centre for Imagination in Research, Culture and Education Note: This blog is an extension of Episode 6 of the Cultivating Imagination podcast.  For twenty years, as a faculty member in Education at Simon Fraser University, I ran fairly large scale, community-based research projects with schools and school districts around British … Read more