Creative Classwork

Both Unlimited Potential and Learning About Learning used theatrical practices in their curriculum. Teachers emphasized dynamic exercises like movement and songs over more static activities like reading and writing in the classroom to evoke creativity among students. Aspects of theatrical performance permeated the entire teaching process, as it made learning more engaging for both students and teachers, and classwork designed to excite creative minds bridged the wide gap between teachers and students that traditional education promoted.

Behind the scenes, educators studied theatrical tactics like the benefits of spatial awareness for the mind-body connection to create their curriculum, as Unlimited Potential embraced the principle notion that imagination was inherent to children’s minds. Unlimited Potential designed classwork to keep this imagination alive, especially for the students from marginalized communities who had to grow up faster than their wealthier, typically whiter, peers. Because Unlimited Potential and Learning About Learning primarily served to reform education in underserved communities, most of their students were lower class Black and Hispanic children. The poems and songs featured in workbooks and shared in classrooms did not shy away from the prejudice that children would face in their adult lives, if they had not already experienced it. There was no shying away from the reality of racial and ethnic bigotry, though the program sought to keep children’s innocence intact through the vehicles of education. As such, the program exposed kids to these hard truths through songs about unfair expectations, allowing students to express their emotions while still promoting creativity above all else.

A Place For Ideas: Our Theater
Rather than stagnant reading and lectures, curricula encouraged physical movement to generate ideas. Whether it was following lines to promote dynamic movement or acting like an inanimate object, children were encouraged to use both their body and mind for creativity in the classroom.
A Place For Ideas: Our Theater
Rather than stagnant reading and lectures, curricula encouraged physical movement to generate ideas. Whether it was following lines to promote dynamic movement or acting like an inanimate object, children were encouraged to use both their body and mind for creativity in the classroom.

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Common frustrations with traditional education and a binary-driven world were brought to center stage, as Unlimited Potential and Learning About Learning prided themselves on deviating from classroom norms. Songs, movement activities, and a general focus on the arts replaced textbooks and other static educational techniques, making school as dynamic as theatrical performance.

My World is My Mirror
Children’s curious nature made its way onto paper in the form of music. Self-reflection was promoted to help keep creativity growing, and singing these songs made for a more engaging learning experience.
My World is My Mirror
Children’s curious nature made its way onto paper in the form of music. Self-reflection was promoted to help keep creativity growing, and singing these songs made for a more engaging learning experience.

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To encourage and celebrate each other's individuality, this workbook targets both adults and children. Recognizing and commemorating the uniqueness of friends, family, teachers, and peers helped with classroom unity and encouraged creativity in the process of appreciating someone else’s identity.

Tap into your Unlimited Potential by celebrating someone you know! Download and print this PDF to channel the Learning About Learning spirit and appreciate your friends and family for being uniquely themselves!