The Freddie Reisman Center (FRC) for Translational Research in Creativity and Motivation addresses the disconnect between teachers' knowledge of creative and motivated students and teachers’ beliefs that affect how they stifle rather than nourish creative students. The medical translational research model -- referred to as Bench to Bedside -- serves as our prototype for the FRC's model, Lab to Learner, where relevant research hidden in journals not accessible to educational end-users will be available to teachers. The FRC also will address translational research for corporate trainers and talent managers. The FRC advances the prototype of translational research and applies it to education, significantly decreasing the lag time between excellent research findings and their access to teachers and corporate trainers. Thus, the impact of research to benefit education end users can now occur.

 

The FRC Team and a stellar group of researchers from the creativity and motivation fields comprise the FRC Advisory Board. The Team collaboratively gathers worldwide research and practices with end-users (e.g., teachers, doctoral students, parents, instructional designers, college faculty, school principals, business leaders) that focus on creativity and motivation and disseminate these jewels to the teachers for use with their students. This includes providing tested, teacher-developed lesson plans and related strategies that educators can immediately implement in the classroom with the ultimate end goal of advancing human possibility through education.