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- Bridge Organisation Connecting young people with great arts and culture
- Arts Award A national qualification that supports young people to develop as artists and arts leaders.
- Services for Schools Curious Minds offer for schools for the 2011-12 academic year and more
- Curious Project 6 Engaging young people in the regeneration & renewal of their community
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- Case Studies An online database of case studies from the Curious Minds’ programmes.
- Our Impact Curious Minds' impact in schools
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- Trustees Report and Annual Accounts Curious Minds trustees report and annual accounts 09/10
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News
- Working with Initial Teacher Training
- Children tell Curious Minds how to develop a good story
- Parents, Community and School working together
- Burnley Community Festival Evaluation
- Curious Minds Around the World
- Flexible Approaches to Time and Space
- Bolton Celebrates Arts Award Success
- Creative schools in the North West help boost UK economy Creative schools in the North West help boost UK economy
- Creative Agents Reflect and Share Practice on 'Brokerage'
- Accrington Academy On World Stage
- The North West's Cultural Sector Looks Positively to the Future
- Profile of a Practitioner - Paul Gent
- Mount Carmel Catholic High School
- Drama to Encourage Enterprise Skills
- Pupil Voice at Sefton School Use of Pupil Voice in the creative curriculum by Bedford Primary School in Sefton.
- Arts Award & SEN Online Forum Summary Summary from Online Networking Session Arts Award & SEN 28 October 2010
- Building links with families
- Telling Tales together....
- praXis Arts and Health Conference
- ‘I Value the Arts’
- Remaining CulturEuro seminars in 2010
- Capital funding for community buildings
- Donate your Dust
- Wellness Day
- ‘What’s All The Fuss?’ gets off to a flying start!
- Burnley Community Festival Evaluation Report
- Having A Curious Blast In Clitheroe!
- Youth Arts Transforms Lives – FACT!
- Cameron Herold argues: 'Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs '
- Fantastic new video reasserts the case for creative teaching and learning
- School profile: Wallasey - from good to outstanding!
- Curious Minds and TiPP ready to support Youth in Focus bids
- Curious Minds joins Liverpool BSF Creativity Networking Group meeting
- Curious Minds music practitioner Sarah Marks wins Music Teacher of the Year
- Arts Award advisers' forum - online on 25 November
- CCE Impressed By Region
- Sharing and Reflection, What’s All The Fuss About, Pods
- 16th & 17th December - FREE Training for budding ICT and New Media Practitioners!
- Meet Curious Minds - Lindsey
- vinspired goes mobile
- Education White Paper
- 4Talent Inspiration Day
- Mining the Gold - Creative Documentation and Evaluation
- School Project Updates
- Pendle Vale Wins Regional Philip Lawrence Award
- Meet Curious Glen
- Whiston Willis Asks The Question
- What are Schools For?
- Creative Consultancy at St Kentigern’s Pupil voice and decision-making, consultancy, out door spaces, Lancashire
- Schools environment Day: FREE CPD event for teachers
- Why Not Back a Curious Future
- Creating a Love of Learning
- A Curious Future for Arts Award in the North West...
- Action Learning
- What’s Outside Matters!
- Arts Award gets a big Welcome at the Brewery Arts Centre
- Induction Event for Cheshire Settings: 7 January 2011
- Creative Documentation...who, why, what and how
- The Return of What's All The Fuss About?!!
- Brilliant Partnerships, Collaboration & Possibilities...
- Piloting future school networks
- Pupils travel back to Victorian Liverpool
- Meet Curious Jane
- Archbishop Beck Teachers TV
- Meet Curious Alice B
- Meet Sarah Pickering and Family - The Curious Minds Effect - Creative Agent
- Free Training To Help Creative Practitioners
- Magic Carpets and Mermaids
- Getting Write to the Point
- Schools Tackle The Great Outdoors
- You Say Picasso, We Say PQASSO
- Three Separate Subjects into an Integrated Curriculum
- Community Cohesion Matters! Free Workshops pennine schools cohesion
- Creative Documentation Workshops for Schools
- The Investigators – De La Salle Humanities College, Liverpool
- Creative Futures Welcomes Arts Award at The Brewery
- Curious Minds Film
- Citizenship in Schools
- Understanding how studying the arts supports independent learning
- Bill Lucas Seminar
- New co-mentoring programme launched
- Practitioners Ponder Family Engagement
- Curious Project 6 goes Dutch!
- Tackling Transition
- Talking about feelings in school
- Royal Cross children make waves!
- Leyland St Mary’s takes part in national architectural scheme
- New Legacy Network talk ‘Fundraising’
- Little Heads, Big Ideas Pt. 1
- A Taste of 2 Cultures
- Making Dragons - Making Films
- Sir Ken Robinson on Passion
- Meet Curious Rosie
- Rainhill St Ann's C.E. Primary School immersed in history
- Thumbs up from CCE
- Arts Award 7-11 pilot: applications now open!
- Little Heads, Big Ideas Pt. 2
- Family Works helps schools
- Welcome to a Curious Future
- Breaking Through Barriers and the Road to Success
- Knowsley Park Learning Centre look at Community Cohesion
- In My Liverpool Home - St. John Fisher Catholic Primary School
- Join us for a Curious Breakfast
- Lead Artist collaborator wanted for THE BIG GAME 2011
- Bedford Primary School - Inspired To Write
- Enterprising Route to Creating Improvements in Maths
- Exploring Collaboration Workshop
- Dave Meslin: The antidote to apathy
- A Trailblazer Symposium - FACT 23 May
- Policy Provocations at University of Liverpool
- Join the Curious Minds Schools Memberships Network
- Burnley Schools Working Together
- Chris May - Chief Executive, Curious Minds
- CREATE IT - PLAY IT - WATCH IT - BLAZE
- Hip Hop Genius - A Culture of Thought and Practice
- Pupils Tell Tales about a Mummies hand!
- Success of West Cheshire Curious Minds Enquiry School Programme
- Art:FX at Gallery Oldham
- Arts Award 7-11 pilot centres announced
- FREE school workshops - Northwest Architecture Festival
- Kirkby Sports College - Signage
- Curious Minds appoints Chris Finn as Acting Chief Executive
- Meet Curious Kelly
- Goosnargh pupils’ giant fairytale book
- Teams Needed for The Big Game
- Action Learning 2011
- Looking Forward Together - Wade Deacon
- Students at St John's Poulton le Fylde take transition in their stride
- On the trail of creative maths at Pendle Vale
- More Music Needs Your Vote - My Generation
- You are Invited to a Curious Celebration
- Sharing and Debate with Curious Minds
- The Big Game - Deadline Approaching
- ALTERNATIVE OLYMPICS JUST ONE WEEK AWAY
- Inspiring You to Inspire Others - FREE Taster Sessions
- Curious Work Experience
- A Very Curious Film
- A Very Curious Celebration
- Curious Minds Kirkby Cluster Project
- English Martyr’s Primary School
- In out, in out, learning all about - Broad Green
- Team Building Through Creative Design at Archbishop Beck Catholic Sports College
- Hillside Community Primary
- Tauheedul Students use nature as inspiration at Wycoller
- Arts Award - Bolton Success
- The Diversity of Curious Minds!
- Hope Academy Get Creative with Digital Media Hope Academy Get Creative with Digital Media
- Artsmark is Back! – Training Available in Merseyside and Lancashire Artsmark is Back! – Training Available in Merseyside and Lancashire
- A Summary of the Share & Debate Events A Summary of the Share & Debate Events
- St Francis Primary Woodland Maths Project Adds up to a Huge Success St Francis Primary Woodland Maths Project Adds up to a Huge Success
- Arts Award and Blaze Partnership – Under the Town Arts Award and Blaze Partnership – Under the Town
- Blaze North West Festival Producer
- Kirkby Sports College ‘Media Group’
- Eastway Primary Building Learning Power
- Blaze 2011 Celebration
- What is a Bridge? What is a Curious Bridge?
- School Clusters in Pennine Lancashire and Beyond
- The Case for Cultural Learning - published
- Blackspots for NEETS
- Creative Schools: North West Taster Events
- Freelance Artistic Director Vacancy
- Working With NEETs Course
- Curious Minds appoints new Chief Executive
- IGNITE – The alternative Saturday Job
- Arts Award Regional Conference
- A Spark of Creative Change
- Embedding creative learning within Arts Award
- Curious Minds - Improving Learning Creatively
- CREATIVE LEARNING AND THE NEW OFSTED FRAMEWORK
- Preparing students for jobs that don’t exist yet
- Arts Award Conference - 26 Jan
- Arts provision for schools
- Consultation with children and young people: Curious Stories
- Your Bridge – a consultation with the North West
- Red Rose Awards
- Arts Award Adviser Conference 2012
- Discover and Explore Arts Award Announced
- Fostering Independent Learners
- Developing Different Voices - Publication
- Birdwood Podcast Perfection
- Liverpool Office Closure
- somewhereto_ be creative
- Curious Stories (from Curious Minds)
- Curious Stories Book Launch
- Arts Award Advisor Meeting
- In Harmony Liverpool Launches Sea Odyssey Giant Spectacular
- Drama Education: Always Looking Forward
- Opportunities: Finance & Resources Assistant
- Access Fund Deadline
- Music Education Hubs announced
- Arts Council announce first round of touring grants
- Blaze receives Arts Council funding and gets ready to launch 2012 Programme
- Curious Minds: the perfect partner for your Summer School programme
Hip Hop Genius - A Culture of Thought and Practice
This video illustrates the concept of Hip Hop Genius. these ideas are explored more fully in the book, Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education (hiphopgenius.org)
The drawings were done by Mike McCarthy, a student at College Unbound (collegeunbound.org), a school that exemplifies many of the values espoused in the film. the entire video was shot in College Unbound's seminar space, where Mike has built a studio for his company Drawn Along (drawnalong.com).