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Creativity Is Not a Strategy—It’s a Birthright: Reclaiming the Human Side of Teaching in a Testing Culture

December 1, 2025January 4, 2026 Jay Leonard Schwartz

In humanistic teaching, creativity is foundational because language itself is creative. Every sentence a learner forms is an act of risk-taking and self-expression. When instruction becomes reduced to test preparation, we mute the very capacities we claim to nurture: voice, imagination, identity.

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Taking Responsibility—Because Education Isn’t Just What You Teach, It’s How You Live

November 4, 2025January 4, 2026 Jay Leonard Schwartz

Yes, in many places, climate change has already moved into the neighborhood. And as teachers, as materials developers, it means something to stand in front of a classroom built on land that is slowly, visibly, and measurably disappearing. To treat climate awareness as just another thematic unit between “Shopping” and “Sports” is not only poor pedagogy—it is a dereliction of responsibility.

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