When a School is Brave Enough to Lead with Creative Intelligence
This musing grew out of one workshop that truly inspired me – a day that reminded me why Creative Intelligence matters, and how powerful it is when educators step into the unknown together.
Turns Out My Brain is Fashionable Now.
Understanding my brain didn’t change who I am; it finally explained why I always felt out of place, and why the future seems oddly built for me.
When Young People Let Go of Control
This musing captures what happened when young people let go of control for the first time. Their marks revealed fear, memory, instinct, and identity in ways no test ever could. It’s a glimpse into Creative Intelligence: the human capacities that awaken when we stop performing and start listening.
How to Assess the AIP Without the AIP
How do we assess the AIP without reducing it to slides? In this Musing I share why documentation should be treated as seeds for growth, not finished presentations, with practical strategies, a teacher reference sheet, and a student task you can use straight away.
Hollow Men Suite: Robert Motherwell and the Language of Shapes
Robert Motherwell’s Hollow Men Suite #7 (1986) reveals how simple shapes act as characters in dialogue; asserting, resisting, and transforming through repetition. This Musing explores visual weighting, mark-making, and the language of abstraction, showing how meaning emerges not from representation but from relation.
Montage: Disruption, Context, and the Unconscious
This Musing guides teachers through the second project of Thread 1 (T1_P2: Montage + Identity). It shows how to introduce montage through Hannah Höch’s The Beautiful Girl, how to weave context through dialogue, and how to help students balance intuition with compositional logic.
Equivalents: Teaching Photography as Inner Reflection
This Musings explores how Stieglitz’s Equivalents can guide students in seeing their own photographs as mirrors of the self. Through two models, structured writing with Description–Analysis–Evaluation (DAE) and intuitive reflection through narrative, it shows how to move from surface images into depth. With scaffolds, examples, and IB connections, it offers practical ways to help students trust intuition and write with clarity.
From Euclid to Intuition
What happens when we stop controlling an artwork, and let it lead instead? This musing explores Frank Stella’s transition from Euclidean precision to intuitive gesture, and invites you to enter the creative conversation through your own response.