When all is said and done about fostering creativity in young people, it is the attitudes, values, and skills of teachers and other caregivers that make sustainable differences in furthering this precious national resource. The practical guidance provided in this book make it nothing short of the definitive standard for delivering dynamic services for promoting creativity in all of our students.

Joseph S. Renzulli, Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut

At a time when creativity is in higher demand than ever before, this book recognizes the beautiful risk that educators and learners alike must take to cross the bridge from uncertainty to creative confidence. With concrete guidance – including action principles and clear classroom examples – this book paves a clear path for anyone interested in bringing greater creativity into their learning environment.

Elisabeth McClure, PhD, Research Specialist in Creativity at The LEGO Foundation

Beautiful Risks is an erudite and accessible work that provides practical tools for teachers to identify and enact deliberate creativity in the classroom. With Beautiful Risks as a guide, you can create and capitalize on learning opportunities generated by your own and students’ unique perspectives and experiences.

Beth Miller, Executive Director, Creative Education Foundation

Some creative risks are genuinely bad for everyone. Yet some are beautiful. In this beautiful risk of a book, Ronald Beghetto encourages risk, but guides us all to be better risk takers for maximum creativity and goodness inside and outside of the classroom.

Scott Barry Kaufman, Barnard College, Columbia University