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Day 140 (of 2025/26) World Creativity and Innovation Day

On World Creativity and Innovation Day, we tend to celebrate big ideas.

The breakthroughs. The inventions. The “aha” moments that change everything.

But in schools, creativity rarely looks like a lightning bolt.

It looks like:

• a student trying a second approach
• a different way to show understanding
• a question that bends the task just enough to make it their own

Innovation isn’t always loud.

Sometimes it’s a quiet refusal to do the thinking the same way twice.

And maybe that’s the reminder today:

If every student is expected to learn the same thing in the same way…

we shouldn’t be surprised when creativity becomes something we talk about,
instead of something we actually see.

My school challenge: World Creativity and Innovation Day – Tuesday, April 21

In the spirit of TaskMaster… your challenge is a one day GeniusHour – a one day passion explosion… your time starts now…

1. Wonder (What are you curious about?)

2. Explore (Google, build, test, sketch)

3. Create (something to show)

4. Share (post, video, or live meet)

5. Reflect – is what you thought was a passion something you want to continue? It’s okay if you don’t want to continue it – that can even be the best part of GeniusHour… Yes, Landy will do a share via Instagram!

Upon reflection, one of my favourite quotes seems to fit well with pushing your own creativity and innovation (from Steve Jobs):

Here’s to the crazy ones. 

The misfits. 

The rebels. 

The troublemakers. 

The round pegs in the square holes. 

The ones who see things differently. 

They’re not fond of rules. 

And they have no respect for the status quo. 

You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. 

About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. 

Because they change things. 

They push the human race forward. 

And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. 

Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Maybe that’s what today is really about.

Not just celebrating creativity…

…but giving students permission to try something that doesn’t quite fit the mold
and seeing where it leads.

Because sometimes the best outcome of Genius Hour isn’t what you create…

It’s discovering how you think.