Wednesday, March 2, 2011
San Antonio School for Inquiry and Creativity
The San Antonio School for Inquiry and Creativity (SASIC) is a public school in San Antonio, TX. There is no tuition at SASIC and its main focus is creativity in the arts, applied to "normal" (math, science, history) classes. SASIC does have your standard curriculum classes but applies the arts to each class. SASIC's mission statement is: San Antonio School for Inquiry and Creativity strives to honor its name: At our school, constructive learning through the arts taps into students’creative and analytical abilities and rewards them with relevant learning as well as a deeper understanding in all academic areas. Although I feel like SASIC is innovative and has acknowledged that creativity should be implemented in our school systems, but why does society always tie creativity to "the arts." Creativity is not just present in the arts, creativity is in every subject area in school systems. Instead of SASIC wanting to "get creative" using the arts in classes like math and history, why not get creative in math using MATH. When people generally think of innovating they think of "thinking outside the box." Well, if SASIC is only using the arts to implement in other classes I think that they are really "staying INSIDE the box." Until schools find a way to foster creativity in each subject, focused on the actual subject at hand, schools will continue to have the creative problems that researches are so worried about. I feel that if schools can become creative in each subject INDEPENDENT of one another, then maybe, just maybe, we will see a progression in our school systems.
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I agree with what you say here, creativity does not just happen through the arts. SASIC does use and encorages students to use various innovative techniques within each core subject. Math for instance is a very creative subject that can be expressed, learned and taught in many creative ways. In our case, students who are arts orientated seek us out so creativity is most typically in this genre, which is by the way wide reaching. The misunderstanding that we don't foster creativity in each subject, focused on the actual subject at hand is unfortunate,we do. Subject matter is presented and expressed in a variety of ways using the subject matter at hand making it relevant to our students (which in our case is within the arts; music, film, fine arts, literary arts, dance and digitally). You are correct in saying that creativity and innovation resides within every concept in core subjects, that is what we believe also. Our students are typically creative in an art oriented way when they come to us. Therefore, tranferring that creativity to core subject areas gives our students the opportunity to discover the creative components embedded within each.
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