Creative Schools

2.5 stars...this book is full of good ideas and anecdotes about inspiring schools. But it's just that - vague calls to action and anecdotes. Maybe I am not the target audience? I am a teacher and I wonder if the target audience might be school administrators or politicians, with the intention of encouraging them to throw their support behind alternative schools and schools trying new things. As a teacher, most of the anecdotes in this book deal with very alternative schools, which is interesting, but I would have loved to hear more about how these ideas could be implemented within a more typical school. In both types of schools he described (the alternative schools and the few examples of typical public schools), he gave little to no information about HOW these changes were made. There was lots of info about how the ideas were developed, and then about how it worked out, but not a lot about what that transition looked like.

I feel bad giving this book such a low rating because I do think it's a very important subject and Ken Robinson is a significant voice in pushing for school reform but this...just felt repetitive and lacking depth.

Ken Robinson is determined to help education, and I think Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education is his best effort yet. Robinson seeks out schools and teachers and methodologies that produce fabulous results and shares these schools and teachers and methodologies with us. You can't help but be motivated to join Robinson's revolution after reading this book, I think.