Recreating America: Creativity and Learning InCA Productions and OETA - PDF document

Recreating America: Creativity and Learning InCA Productions and OETA are pleased to announce the national distribution of ReCreating America: Creativity and Learning, a public television special on creativity in education. The program will be available to public television stations on April 5, 2010 via satellite through the NETA Program Service: Program Details: http://www.netaonline.org/search/ProgramDetails.cfm?ID=3001 Press Kit: (See: “ReCreating America FTP”) http://www.netaonline.org/01imagegallery.htm Summary For much of its history, the word "America" has stood for the brightest ideas, the most resourceful solutions and the most provocative insights. Is this still true today, and if not, what can we do? The film explores the importance of creativity in education by highlighting four schools in Oklahoma and assessing how the state's teachers are attempting to teach and promote creativity: Educare Preschool in Tulsa, OK: serving a low-income, at-risk community; Flower Mound Elementary School in Lawton, OK: integrating the arts into the entire curriculum with the A+ Schools initiative; Odyssey of the Mind, a creative problem-solving competition at Piedmont Middle School; Santa Fe South Charter High School in Oklahoma City: helping students overcome the challenges of poverty and the high drop-out rate in America's urban high schools. The program asks teachers, parents and national experts: what appear to be the most effective ways to promote creativity, while still teaching the three Rs, and even improving test scores? Press Kit: A selection of stills from the film, a postcard and press release are available for download here: [LINK TO PRESS KIT] The media may contact Executive Producer, David Kennard of InCA Productions for interviews or further information at dkennard@inca-productions.com ReCreating America Production Team Senior Producer and Narrator: David KennardDirector and Editor: Michael O'ConnellProducer and Director of Research: Elizabeth Kennard InCA Productions Independent Communications Associates, better known globally as InCA, is an award-winning television production company with offices in San Francisco, Toulouse (France) and Nairobi (Kenya). For 25 years, productions by InCA and its co-founder and president, David Kennard have won numerous awards, including national and international Emmies, the International Science Film Festival Jury Prize, the Peabody and Dupont Columbia awards, and the National Educational Media Network Trophy. From The Ascent of Man to Cosmos and Connections, from The Heart of Healing to The Promise of Play, each project has been a milestone in its field. Independent Communications Associates Inc.Contact: David Kennard, Executive Producer Tel 415.389.5000e-mail: dkennard@inca-productions.com www.incafilms.com