- Professional Development
Teacher Creativity
A research-based, systematic approach to developing creative teaching practices and fostering innovation in educational settings.
Teacher Creativity redefines professional development by empowering educators with design thinking to overcome instructional challenges specific to their classroom environment. This evidence-based framework not only challenges attitudes toward creativity in teaching but also increases teacher agency by enhancing problem-solving skills and facilitating the validation of ideas based on their impact on students in the classroom.
Drives Teacher Growth
Empowers Instructional Innovation
Transforms Teaching from Within
Four Pillars of the Framework
A comprehensive approach to developing creative capacity in educational settings.
Student Centered Design
A design-driven approach to creativity that helps educators identify instructional challenges, reimagine learning experiences, and design solutions that respond to the diverse needs, interests, and aspirations of their students.
Key Components:
- Developing student personas
- Evaluating outcomes by student impact
Innovation Despite Constraints
A creative problem-solving approach that helps educators recognize the real-world factors shaping their classrooms, grouping between constraints that must be navigated and problems that represent opportunities for change.
Key Components:
- Identifying and acknowledging constraints
- Opportunity mapping for creativity
Agency Through Choice
A reflective process that empowers teachers to select professional goals aligned with their interests, instructional preferences, and classroom priorities. By choosing personally meaningful goals, educators create personalized pathways for learning that are authentic, actionable, and connected to their evolving classroom realities.
Key Components:
- Identifying preferred goals for the upcoming year
- Clarifying intentions with a Quest Statement
Sharing Evidence of Impact
Sharing evidence of impact involves crafting a narrative that highlights outcomes, validates creative ideas, and promotes the wider adoption of effective practices within the school community. This process encourages teachers to reflect deeply on their practice by identifying meaningful data to validate outcomes and demonstrate proven success in the classroom.
Key Components:
- Identifying and collecting meaningful data
- Presenting a narrative that validates ideas
Professional Development Offerings
Tailored workshops and full-program training designed to implement the framework in the way that best fits your needs and priorities.
Full Framework Implementation
Comprehensive training on all four pillars of the Teacher Creativity Framework with customized implementation planning for your context.
Includes:
- Pre-workshop needs assessment
- Full-day Design Blitz
- AI assisted guide and resources
- 1:1 and group coaching
- Implementation planning session
- Full program evaluation
Ideal for:
Schools or districts ready to commit to a full year program that increase teacher agency and creativity in the classroom.
- Duration: Full-day or half-day workshops
- Format: In-person or Virtual
- Participants: Whole faculty, Department, or Grade-level/PLC teams
AI and Teacher Creativity: Designing the Future
This program explores how teacher creativity can guide the thoughtful design and integration of AI in the classroom
empowering educators to experiment, refine, and validate ways to use AI that enhance teaching, learning, and creativity.
Includes:
- Current AI landscape in education and creativity
- Ethical and effective framework for AI use
- Places student learning and creativity before the technology
- Hands-on AI exploration
- Development of reusuable AI frameworks for teaching and learning
Ideal for: Schools exploring AI integration in creative pedagogy
- Duration: A customized sequence of half- or full-day workshops
- Format: In-person or Virtual
- Participants: Educators, Leaders, Technology coordinators
Design Blitz: Uncovering Opportunities for Teacher Creativity
Empowering educators to identify instructional challenges, navigate design constraints, and set clearly defined and meaningful goals for the academic year.
Includes:
- Addressing systemic barriers to teacher agency and creativity
- Empowering educators to engage creativity despite constraints
- Builds teacher agency by aligning expertise with their interests, needs, and priorities
- Establishes clear, measurable goals for yearlong professional growth
- Supplies a practical framework for accomplishing set goals
- Promotes the use of data to confirm goal achievement
Ideal for: Educational leaders committed to institutional transformation
- Duration: A customized sequence of half- or full-day workshops.
- Format: In-person or Virtual
- Participants: Educators, Teachers, Instructional leaders
What Teachers Say
Matthew invites teachers to share their experiences working with him through a post workshop/program survey. The following testimonials come from teachers, administrators, and education leaders who have experienced the power of the Teacher Creativity Framework and how it applies to their practice.
"After frequently being asked in the past to innovate by "thinking outside the box," I appreciated Dr. Worwood's encourage to instead focus on "thinking inside the box." It was both validating to recognize the structural constraints that teachers face yet encouraging that there is room for agency in problem-solving within one's context."
Sarah Davis
Middle School Teacher
"As a workshop facilitator, Matthew expresses his ideas clearly and creates an environment where each experience leads to the next new understanding. He is organized and I always felt like our time was well spent, either learning something new, or applying it to our own needs as worked towards a finished product."
Angela Dorman
Middle School Teacher
"Working with Matthew helped expand my understanding of creativity and how it applies to teachers. I stopped seeing it as “engaging activities” and thought more about my process and how I impact the classroom."
Sarah Johnson
High English Teacher
"Matthew is a knowledgeable, patient teacher who meets you where you are at and takes your learning to a new level. He values and validates what you already know and builds on it."
Michael Chen
Elementary School Teacher
"Matthew is exactly what professional adult leaders need to push themselves to learn and grow. Sometimes a presenter, sometimes facilitator, sometimes collaborator- always a supporter of the individual and their specific needs."
Jennifer Martinez
High School PD Coordinator
"Matthew's knowledge of teaching and learning is instrumental in the development and growth of educators who participate in his workshops on creativity in education."
David Thompson
Elementary School Teacher
"Matthew is an engaging presenter and workshop facilitator who delivered an activity packed week of learning for and about student and teacher Creativity in the classroom."
Lisa Rodriguez
High School Media Library Specialist
"I will use what I learned in this program throughout my career. As a teacher, you are exposed to so many things it can be overwhelming, but Matthew made it about me and my classroom and that made all the difference."
Robert Williams
Elementary School Teacher