Name: Bryan Philip Plachowski Chajmowicz Schinders Sanders
Occupation: Teacher of High School English Language Arts
Primary/Secondary Education: Formerly Public School, now Private School with the 45% of budget for financial aid, thus creating a diverse student body

Please explain your answers as fully as possible. Use personal
examples/experience if necessary/helpful.

PART 1 - Definitions

What is your personal definition of ‘creativity’?

What I manage to do when I stop listening to everybody else. Or if in conjunction with others, when I stop listening to everybody else who isn’t creating with me.

Do you believe it is possible/useful to distinguish between
‘productive creativity’ and ‘expressive creativity’? If so, how would
you differentiate between the two?

‘Productive creativity’ in this day seems to suggest money to my ear. I don’t need seperate it out for my weird sloafs to come out and wreak havoc. ‘Expressive creativity’ seems to me redundant.

PART 2 - Need

To what extent do you use creativity in your occupation/field of study?

Dude, like all the fucking time! Every single great idea of mine comes from those creative juices, and I have had many a healthy serving of creativity juice at school. I can’t list them all, sorry. Just trust me. 9 years of teaching English would suck major balls if I did the same damned thing every time. I need the NEW! the IMPROVED! the never before tried!

To succeed in your field, what qualities, if any, are more important
to possess than ‘creativity’?

A sense of humor. Tough skin.

To what extent do you believe ‘creativity’ is a necessary tool for
survival?

Dude, like maybe the most. I wouldn’t be here if I my grandfather hadn’t ‘creatived’ his way out of Poland during those grand ‘ol Nazi days.

To what extent is ‘creativity’ necessary for successful maintenance
of interpersonal relationships?

Perhaps not so ‘important’ but certainly makes for more spontaneous wildness with others.
so, successful maintenance might mean having fun and wanting to be together, and creativity will be needed for that.

When choosing among political candidates, how heavily do you weigh
creativity as a deciding factor?

i hate political candidates. i think we should just all poop together and that will help us see how we are all the same.

Do you practice any hobbies you consider creative? What about
traditionally ‘non-creative’ hobbies that require a surprising amount
of creativity on your part?

All I do is creativity. I write, paint, bake, garden, dig, haul, hammer, drill, lift, on and on and on. I have to do it all. I’m a jack of all trades, and a master of a couple.
Is creative expression a necessary component in one’s life?

Only if you don’t want to feel dead.

Have you ever felt you would be stronger at your particular job if
you had greater ‘creativity’?

No, but if i had better toilet paper, i wouldn’t chafe as much.
But seriously, I would be stronger at my job with stronger colleagues with which to create! dig!

PART 3 - Development

Have you [ever been taught/attempted to learn] some sort of
‘creativity’? If so, when did this occur and what methods, if any,
did you find the most useful?

I learned how to sloaf one day before I knew what it was. Then, later in life, I discovered, while ingesting psychedlics, that I needed an “un-ectomy” and my path has never been the same.

To what extent was creativity emphasized in your primary/secondary
education?

Pretty much a part of things, but I had to make sure it was as I got older into high school.

Is creativity teachable? Why or why not? If ‘yes’, what methods do
you believe are most suitable?

Not really teachable. I think it has to be there in multiple mediums and allow an individual to find a path and start emulating, then be set free.

If you were primarily educated in public (non-magnet) schools: To
what extent were the ‘outcasts’ at your school among the more
‘creative’ people? To what do you attribute this? Was a student ever
punished for being excessively creative (e.g. ‘coloring outside the
lines’, etc)? Were you ever offered a chance take a course in a
‘creative’ subject (e.g. writing, music, other arts, etc)?

School doesn’t honor creativity too much. It’s not really in the standards. Therefore, it’s not part of the lessons, or assignments, nor the assessments. Outcasts have to be cast out because they demand answers about why the standards don’t do the job. So, yeah. They are right. The standards suck more balls. Or the standards need to be broadened. Bigger balls, but in a good way.

Are you a creative person?

fo’shizzzzzzzz!

Any other thoughts, feelings, opinions?

Eat Uni! Man, is that shit good!
And I love your face (imagined) as I wrote these answers.

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