TPP 047: The Connection Between Creativity and Neurodiversity, with Kathryn Haydon
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the purpose of the Tilt Parenting podcast and who is the guest today?
Anytime we see a kid that's say not doing well in school, our knee-jerk, based on all the research, our knee-jerk reaction as a society should be, oh my gosh, this kid must have an incredible creative strength.
Welcome to the Tilt Parenting Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber, and today's guest is an expert on education and creativity, Catherine Hayden. Catherine is a writer, speaker, mentor, and consultant who is working to foster an educational paradigm based on student strengths and creative thinking. She's the co-author of the book Creativity for Everybody and the founder of Sparkativity, a learning studio aimed at engaging what she calls SquarePeg students and supporting the parents and educators who want them to succeed. Since we know a thing or two about SquarePeg students around here at Tilt, I wanted to bring Catherine on to talk about her work and find out why she's so passionate about supporting creative thinkers reach their full potential.
I absolutely loved our conversation. It personally inspired me on many levels. And I have a feeling you're gonna get a lot out of it as well. And before we get into our conversation, I wanted to take a moment to give a shout out to my awesome sister Michelle for being one of my backers for the Tilt Parenting Podcast through our Patreon campaign. That's a good sister. Thank you so much for always supporting what I do, and especially for helping me with Tilt. If you'd like to join my sister through Patreon, you can make a small monthly contribution that will go towards funding the production costs associated with our podcast. Even $2 a month makes a big difference for us. Please check out our Patreon page at patreon.com slash tiltparenting.
Thank you for considering and thanks for being a part of our community. And now let's get on with the show. Hey everyone, Debbie Reber here with the Tilt Parenting Podcast, and I'm happy to welcome to the show Catherine Hayden, a writer, speaker, mentor, and consultant, who also happens to be the founder of Sparkativity, a consulting practice that helps kids, families, and teams find freedom, purpose, and productivity through awareness and application of creative strengths. Welcome to the show, Catherine. Thanks, Debbie. Thanks so much for having me on. Well, there's so much there just in that description of Sparkativity that I wanna get into and I know we have a lot to talk about. But before we do that, can you just give us a little bit of information about your personal story, like who you are and specifically how you got into doing this work of blending creativity with kids and families?
Sure,
absolutely. Well, I started out teaching From this standpoint, I actually started out in banking, but I did not like it. So I was looking for my path and I I merged into teaching. I I have a degree in Spanish and I ended up developing Spanish curriculum and teaching Spanish at a private school in California. And then I moved into teaching second grade and after that have just done a lot of teaching in various capacities. But as I've taught over the years, I found that I gravitated to kids for whom school was not a direct fit. So it was either kids that needed more depth or they needed it taught in a different way. And when I taught second grade, I always taught differently, which I would now call in a creative learning way, that would really engage the whole spectrum of learners in my class, from kids who needed some more help to those who were identified as gifted.
But then over time I started to notice that creativity was the common thread that made school difficult for most kids. And the more highly creative they are, the more they live in these expression of creative strengths, the harder it is to fit in a traditional settings. But the issue was that these kids were most often told that something was wrong with them. Yet I'd seen I had some incredible examples of kids I had taught in second grade and they went on to matriculate into some other schools in the area and they started having issues.
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Chapters
3 chapters
1
What is the purpose of the Tilt Parenting podcast and who is the guest today?
0:00–11:46
2
How did Kathryn Haydon’s teaching experience lead her to focus on creative‑learning for “SquarePeg” students?
11:46–15:22
3
Why does Kathryn believe creativity is the common thread behind school struggles for gifted and neurodivergent kids?
15:22–37:26
Speakers
2 identifiedMore from Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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