 So, you know, an age-old view of critical thinking and creativity used to be that there's separate dimensions. That there's critical thinking, there's creativity. That one is rigorous and one is kind of spontaneous. And one is, you know, logical, sequential, and the other is this. And so for a while we've been saying, well, that's actually not true. They actually overlap. Now I actually would say to you, just to be a little provocative, I'm not sure there is any such thing as creative thinking. And let me explain that. Is there creativity? Absolutely. But when we say there's critical thinking and creative thinking, we seem to be implying that there's two different parts. And so from a neuroscience lens, there's no part of the brain devoted to creativity. If I asked you to generate some creative ideas and I watched your brain in MRI scan, you will not see a particular part of the brain light up. You will actually see the frontal lobes light up, which is a part of the brain decision making goal setting, what we would attribute to critical thinking lies. That creativity is in fact good quality thinking. There's two steps in creativity, one that would distinguish. One is the fluency, just the generation of new ideas. But then the second step is, so which of those ideas have merit, which are most useful? So you notice, if I'm not a critical thinking, how do I decide which of those interesting ideas we generated are helpful and most useful? So creativity by its very nature embeds the two have to go together. I'll give you a quick example of a strategy to nurture creativity and how it uses a critical thinking. Students were asked in a grade six class, their challenge was to develop a poster, an anti-bullying poster to combat bullying in their schools. We wanted them to generate ideas that would help them create a poster that was creative. And so we used a strategy called synesthesia, which is using the senses to help me think differently. And so we asked children, if bullying were a color, what color would it be? And I'll never forget this ten-year-old boy said it would be burgundy. And I said, burgundy? He said, well, red is the color of the pain you feel when you're bullied and black is the isolation you feel when you're bullied. And if you mix black and red you get burgundy. I thought, wow, it came from a ten-year-old. Isn't my goal as an educator to close the gap, to give all children the tools that will allow them to be more successful? So creativity matters. It's not about figuring out which kids are creative and which aren't. It's about giving kids the tools that will allow them to engage in creative endeavors so that all kids are more successful when they invite innovation.