# Cultivating Creativity and Connection in the Classroom w/ Tom Rendon & Zachary Stier

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Podcast: [Human Restoration Project](https://stenobird.com/podcast/human-restoration-project-331008)
Published: 2025-12-06T14:19:11+00:00
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How do you define creativity? Would you be able to spot creativity in the wild? What about creativity in the classroom? This endless human quest to define the seemingly undefinable, and somehow make it useful for educators, is what today's guests Tom Rendon and Zachary Stier set out to do, bringing together philosophy, neuroscience, and site visits, in a years-long collaboration that became Creativity in Young Children: What Science Tells Us and Our Hearts Know [https://www.redleafpress.org/Creativity-in-Young-Children-What-Science-Tells-Us-and-Our-Hearts-Know-P3101.aspx]. In this conversation, Tom and Zach help me understand the counterintuitive ways creativity shows up in the world, in the human condition, and how we can cultivate creativity and connection in the classroom.

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