Name: Zing! Seven Creativity Practices for Educators and Students
Author: Pat Mora (Author)
ISBN: 9781412978392

Zing! Seven Creativity Practices for Educators and Students book cover

Zing! Seven Creativity Practices for Educators and Students

Author(s): Pat Mora (Author)

Publisher: Corwin
Publication Date: 30 Mar. 2010
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 152 pages
ISBN-10: 1412978394
ISBN-13: 9781412978392

Book Description

Cultivate your own creativity and the creative potential of all your students! Inventive teaching is an art form that enriches lives and transforms teachers and students. This beautifully written guide offers seven powerful practices for personal creativity and professional inventiveness. For each practice, author Pat Mora proposes a symbol and presents parallel exercises for teachers and students. Evocatively written in the form of letters to teachers and librarians, this book:

Helps educators access their creative selves and, in the process, become better teachers
Nurtures students in expressing themselves through writing and other creative pursuits
Includes activities at the end of each chapter

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Zing! is a wonderful book that encourages others to be creative by sharing what has worked for Pat Mora in all of her creative efforts. Sharing her seven habits for creativity is so Mora-ish. She is the most unselfish author I know.” — Camila A. Alire, Dean Emeritus Published On: 2009-12-21

“In a series of letters to teachers written with her signature poetic grace, Pat Mora gently reminds us of the potential in ourselves and our students while expanding our understanding of the writing process through metaphoric descriptions of other common creative acts. Zing! is a book to be savored, shared, and returned to for inspiration.” — Lee Galda, Professor Published On: 2009-12-14

“In this era of mandates, accountability, and adherence to canned curricula, Pat Mora reminds us that great educators are fueled by passion and creativity. Mora reflects on her experiences working with teachers and students across the country, challenges us to reflect on our own experiences, and inspires us to think and act in new and more powerful ways.” — Gary Bloom, Superintendent Published On: 2009-12-21

“One of the most valuable things to me in any book I look at for my professional library is the references it shares to lead me other resources. I inevitably turn to the back to look for this, and Mora′s book does not disappoint. Overall, it′s a fairly quick read with a long afterlife.” — Lisa Van Gemert Published On: 2012-07-16

From the Back Cover

Based on the workshop, Nurturing Creativity: Seven Practices for Educators and Students, this book affirms the conviction that creative teachers are effective teachers and emphasizes that every child’s creative self must be valued-regardless of a child’s cultural and linguistic background.

About the Author

Pat Mora, a popular presenter across the country at conferences, campuses, libraries, and schools, speaks and offers workshops on literacy, creativity, leadership, the writing process, and serving diverse populations. “Sharing Bookjoy: Creative Literacy Leaders” and “ZING! Seven Creativity Practices for Educators and Students” are among her more popular themes.

The author of award-winning books of nonfiction and poetry for adults and of many children’s books, Pat received honorary doctorates in letters from North Carolina State University and SUNY Buffalo and is an honorary member of the American Library Association. Among her other awards are the 2006 National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, a Visiting Carruthers Chair at the University of New Mexico, a Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Kellogg National Leadership Fellowship.

A former teacher, university administrator, and consultant, Pat is the founder of the family literacy initiative El día de los niños/El día de los libros, Children’s Day/Book Day (Día), now housed at the American Library Association. The yearlong commitment to linking all children to books, languages, and cultures and of sharing what Pat calls “bookjoy,” culminates in national celebrations in April.

Pat was named one of the “Fifty Most Inspiring Authors in the World” by Poets & Writers magazine in February 2010.

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