Sparkchasers: Teaching Through The Creative Mindset

View all the show notes and links to resources at the Sparkchasers podcast page. On this episode of Sparkchasers, I'm thrilled to welcome veteran educator Betsy Potash. Betsy spent almost a decade teaching every level of High School English and now shares her creative thinking strategies for the classroom with others on her site, Spark Creativity. During our time together, Betsy's love for reimagining the possibilities for the classroom was obvious, but it was her dedication to authentic teaching that made me lean in.  In this episode, Betsy shares how she was shamed by other teachers for embracing creative methods, as well as how she overcame those naysayers to build a creative community of over 16,000 other creative educators. Here's some key lessons from our talk: Be True to Yourself as an Educator Betsy tried the traditional English teacher route for about 5 minutes, but it just didn't feel right to her. Once she embraced the idea of using creative thinking and project based learning to engage her stude