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Acknowledgments

One of the most important lessons in the study of creativity is that the myth of the lone genius is a particularly destructive one, leading us to believe that real creative endeavors are solitary. Work that acknowledges the assistance of others is, in one of the worst epithets that can be hurled in the academic community, merely “derivative.” Writers not only have muses but also those who provide intellectual and emotional support that are essential to the production of every book.

Lauren Kruczkowski provided vital assistance in collecting an international sample of creativity rubrics and helped with their analysis. In addition, Lauren processed a decade of results on PLCs and helped to synthesize the data and render a complex and disparate sea of reports into a comprehensible set of data. In both cases, her efforts led to original research that is published for the first time in these pages. Brooks Reeves offered helpful comments on early drafts of the chapters and, in the course of vigorous discussions, helped to frame my thinking on this subject.

Readers can thank Christine Hood and her colleagues at Solution Tree Press for proving Stephen King’s dictum that to write is human, to edit, divine. The book is shorter and more accessible because of their efforts. Douglas Rife, the president of Solution Tree Press, had the vision for a series of brief and focused books that bring complex topics to readers in a user-friendly format. Jeff Jones, the CEO of Solution Tree, leads an organization whose mission is to advance the work of its authors. Every author can only hope for the sort of supportive and intellectually challenging environment that Solution Tree provides.

The reference section is woefully insufficient to acknowledge my debt to the authors on whose research and wisdom I depend. I must nevertheless single out for special appreciation Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Richard DuFour, Howard Gardner, John Hattie, and Grant Wiggins.

Although I am grateful for the people listed in the foregoing paragraphs, the inevitable errors and omissions are mine alone.

Douglas Reeves

Boston, Massachusetts

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