Creativity Spotlight: Five Innovation Responses to COVID-19

According to UNESCO, COVID-19 has dramatically impacted over 90% of school education globally this year. In addition to our Creativity Spotlight report with The LEGO Foundation, we believed it important to recognise the impact this crisis has caused these innovations. This supplementary mini-report presents case studies from surveys and interviews on how five of the selected innovators have responded to COVID-19 as a result of widespread school closures. The purpose is to illuminate how a variety of innovations have coped with the challenges they faced (and continue to face), and shed light on the changes/learnings since.  

• We asked five different types of innovations from our Creativity Spotlight: BRAC Remote Play Labs – Low socioeconomic solution in early childhood education
• Educate! – Entrepreneurship education (senior high school students)
• MyMachine – STEM collaboration of all educational levels: • Remake Learning Days Across America – Connecting parents, families, and caregivers together
• Slam Out Loud – Building creative confidence

These five innovations were featured because they present a range of approaches to foster Creativity and had significant challenges, interventions and learnings to offer. In the following pages, a summary of learnings is presented first before detailed responses in their voice. We hope that this report will help others to overcome the challenges we face in education as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.