Developing Our Students' Creation-Driven Mindsets
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Presenter Bio
Dr. Betsy Newman, executive vice president of Berklee, drives the institution’s strategic vision with a student-centered approach. A transformative leader, she launched the Berklee Bridge, secured a $1.8M grant for student success, and expanded financial aid through the Thrive Scholarship. Previously, as senior vice president, she achieved record retention and graduation rates. With over 25 years in higher education leadership and degrees from Babson, Harvard, and Penn, she is dedicated to empowering the next generation of artists, innovators, and changemakers.
Presentation Description
As faculty and educators, we are all responsible for creating an environment that will foster our students’ personal, creative, and artistic growth. This session will introduce a research-based framework that explains how students develop a creation-driven mindset; and the ways in which the educational experiences we provide (or don’t provide) influence it. Through the exploration of five developmental domains—(1) recognizing the unintended consequences of success-as-prescribed; (2) discovering creative drive; (3) building creative agency; (4) negotiating degrees of creative freedom; and, (5) catalyzing creative growth—we’ll explore some practical considerations for designing—with greater intention—educational experiences that advance each student’s development journey.
Publication Date
3-24-2025
Campus
Berklee Online
Recommended Citation
Newman, Betsy and Pedagogy Arts Collective, "Developing Our Students' Creation-Driven Mindsets" (2025). Pedagogy Arts Collective. 23.
https://remix.berklee.edu/pac/23