Leading for Creativity: CCE Roundtable

With creative thinking receiving growing attention in education, an important question remains: how does creativity become part of a school’s everyday culture rather than an occasional activity? Creativity, Culture and Education invited Winsy Flores on behalf of Rocket Productions to join their UK roundtable with inspiring leaders such as Professor Bill Lucas and Dame Alison Peacock alongside otehr leaders and organisations. The day was spent examining creativity, professional learning and leadership. The conversation considered how structures, expectations and working relationships can either support experimentation or gradually encourage conformity, even within organisations that place a high value on creativity.

Rocket’s contribution drew on experience across our four London Pre-Preps, where teachers investigate shared questions, experiment with ideas and learn through observation and discussion with colleagues. This culture of professional curiosity is central to how the Rocket Approach continues to develop. The roundtable offered an opportunity to connect those experiences with wider thinking about collective intelligence and creative leadership. It also raised a particularly relevant question for school leaders: what might educators be capable of discovering if their professional environments offered the same trust, curiosity and freedom to explore that schools hope to give children?