Curious Minds

Mining the Gold - Creative Documentation and Evaluation

How do we capture the amazing stories of change and impact in Creative Partnerships schools?  How do we bring them to life and grip audiences? Creative Agents need to facilitate schools to document captivating stories and evidence that promote the value of a creative approach to teaching and learning. 

When you see the work happening on the ground with pupils, teachers and practitioners you bear witness to the positive effect a creative collaboration has on children's engagement, confidence, imagination and learning.  Hearing those involved in programmes describe what is happening differently because of Creative Partnerships is often powerful and moving.   Pure form-filling, box-ticking and jargon is not enough to communicate the significance of this work.  Schools need to use methods that display outcomes in a visual, tangible and multi-sensory way.

On Monday 17th January Curious Minds is giving all Creative Agents the opportunity to explore different approaches to evaluation and documentation.  Dr Helen Manchester of the Faculty of Education and Language Studies and the Child and Youth Studies Research Group, The Open University, and Paul Main, Curious Minds Creative Agent, will facilitate an interactive session using ICT and digital media for evaluation and documentation.  Paul Merrick and Alison Unsworth from BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Arts (www.balticmill.com) will help us explore beautiful, artistic approaches to evaluation and documentation, embedding methods such as video, photography, drawing, movement and questioning into the learning sessions.

Agents need to book for this via eventbrite by Friday 10th December after which date we will open this offer up to our creative practitioner workforce.
Please contact the office for more details: 0151 708 8009 

To see the notes, audio, pictures and video from the previous seminars we have held please visit our Creative Agent - Sharing and Reflection blog.