Michelangelo in the 21st Century: Strategy, practical tools, and inspiration to raise ingenious creative thinking students.

What if we educated toward creativity like Michelangelo’s? Children today are like diamonds – full of ideas, interesting questions, and astonishing insights. Michelangelo was like that. Everything was against him. Sculpture wasn’t esteemed as a professional guild that brings status and fortune. What he had was the passion to sculpt, perseverance, and love for learning. The print revolution enabled him to learn from books. Today we are at the artificial intelligence revolution. It enables children to order stories, paintings, and homework answers. Why do we need creative thinking for children, then? Because, during the process of enrichment and research, like the one Michelangelo did toward every new artwork, the inner world of the child reveals itself. It was self-expression that gave Michelangelo’s sculptures great impact. And that is something the computer cannot replace. This book helps teachers leverage their humane personality, to complement AI assisted creative learning toward better results. It provides strategized practices, from which educators can choose those best suited for their students, to ignite creative skillful learning for K12. It equips teachers with a treasure trove of tips to provide students with 21st century study skills toward success: creative problem solving, collaborative PBL, and much more. Promoting individual potential, this book facilitates multicultural education, giving equal learning opportunities for all. By better understanding students’ bright minds, which sometimes lead to disrupting behaviors, this book is your anchor for caring classroom management. Discover how to give social-emotional learning tips and 21st century skills guidelines that will serve as a balancing anchor accompanying students on their journey to success. This visionary approach serves as a lighthouse, directing toward hope and wellbeing. The book will help you support twice-exceptional and neurodiversity students’ inclusion, directing them to contribute based on their creative brightness. Michelangelo in the 21st Century provides a holistic solution to 21st century teachers’ challenges. No more trial and error. Creativity education leader, Michelle Korenfeld, offers effective up-to-date research and lifelong-creative-education-practice based tools to upgrade achievements, bringing the smile back to teachers, children, youth, parents and communities. From understanding classroom cues to brain-research based learning, directing enquiry to leading conversations, this book builds teachers’ professionality. Guidelines and tools are provided for identifying students’ diverse needs and potentials, teaching ethics, and growing leaders. The world fact/opinion trivia game and learning units ignite curiosity toward sustainability and innovation. The 5 E’s strategy focuses and directs: Explore, Experience, Examine, Elevate, Express. Michelle Korenfeld – author, painter, poet, lifelong educator and creativity researcher for the past 20 years, dean’s excellence in education leadership, administration and policy MA, brings a fresh breeze to the school bag, with creativity and innovation throughout the learning rainbow. Michelle wrote 10 teaching-learning books – writing, drawing and painting. She believes that much of the social-emotional problems derive from aggression based on stifled creativity. To free such creative thinking, we need to construct creative learning opportunities for self-expression that will lead to excellence, through self-directedness that comes from teachers believing in children and youth’s strengths.