Creative Planning Resource for Interconnected Teaching and Learning combines theories by such
educational reformers as Banks Clark Considine Cortes Gardner McCarthy Marzano Perrone
and Sizer to lay a foundation for interconnected teaching and learning for the whole child - as
described in The Holistic Circle of Learning by Pewewardy - and across a balanced curriculum
that includes media literacy multiculturalism and personal development. Rather than a
prescriptive methods book Creative Planning Resource for Interconnected Teaching and Learning
assists preservice and inservice pre-K-12 teachers in planning backward about big ideas by
utilizing a new spiraling design for creative planning and diverse groupings resources and
strategies to access process produce and evaluate understandings.
