DIcor EDU

As DIcor is for business leadership, DIcor EDU is for educational leadership. DIcor EDU, a division of DIcor, is directed at boards of education, school administrators, and central office staff. Its purposes are DIcor’s purposes:

• to highlight the need for creativity
• to develop a basic knowledge of, and commitment to apply, Creative Problem Solving (CPS) tools
• to foster an understanding of and appreciation for problem solving style
• to help prepare both leaders and learners for participation in the ever-changing workplace of tomorrow.

The one-day DIcor EDU hands-on workshop offers participants an understanding of their own problem solving style and an appreciation of the strengths of the differing styles of staff members and colleagues. Participants also learn and practice ten powerful tools for generating and focusing ideas for more effective problem solving. Participants leave our sessions ready to apply their new knowledge and skills in strengthening relationships, building successful teams and guiding effective working groups when managing change and seeking innovative solutions to ongoing problems.

After experiencing successful applications of these tools in their own settings, we believe that participants will also recognize the important benefits of CPS and style for teachers and students, and move forward to implement instructional programs designed to foster CPS throughout education. Destination ImagiNation, Inc. and the Center for Creative Learning, Inc. offer a wide array of programs, both curricular and extra-curricular, to enable students of all ages to realize their creative potential. These programs offer schools and community organizations opportunities to strength their efforts to foster creative and critical thinking, effective problem solving, innovation, teamwork, and collaborative skills, and to identify and nurture talent.

For more information about DIcor EDU
contact Dr. Ed Selby,
Destination ImagiNation, Inc. Corporate Consulting
Educational Leadership Division
at eselby@dicor.org

You can also contact our corporate office at
Destination ImagiNation, Inc.
1.800.321.1603 ext 13
P.O. Box 547
Glassboro, New Jersey 08028-0547 • USA
www.destinationimagination.org

DIcor EDU Associates

Ed Selby, Ph. D.
Ed is an Associate with Center for Creative Learning, Inc., in Sarasota, Florida, and an Adjunct Professor with Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education. He is the principal author of VIEW: An assessment of problems solving style™ as well as several publications of support material for that instrument. He lectures and offers seminars and workshops, helping individuals and groups to become more effective problems solvers. Ed is also the author of several articles on creativity, individual style, and talent development.

Prior to retirement, he served as a public school music and drama teacher. He founded the Sussex Student Theater, in which students wrote and produced their own musical plays.

Ed is President of the Board of Directors of the Sussex County Teen Arts Festival, and served as President of the Sussex County Technical School Board of Education. He was active in the New Jersey Education Association, serving four years as President of the Sussex-Wantage Education Association. Dr. Selby’s professional interests include learning styles, talent development and developing creativity and problem solving skills among students, staff, and educational leadership.

Ed and his wife Joan live in Sussex, NJ.

Laura Liskey-Cole is a native Virginian who began her undergraduate studies at the College of William and Mary and, after earning her BA and MA, has completed post-Masters level coursework at Virginia State University.  

Laura has spent her 30+ year career committed to helping kids learn…as a teacher, administrator, counselor and curriculum developer.

A voracious writer, she has been published in a number of professional journals, newspapers, community newsletters, and co-writer of a Creative Problem Solving course on the Internet!

She has been involved in creative problem solving since 1984, serving as a Regional Director, State Trainer, Board member, Challenge Writer and International Challenge Master for Destination ImagiNation, the world’s largest creative problem solving program.

Recently accredited by Center for Creative Learning, Inc., in Sarasota, Florida, she brings more than 20 years of experience and leadership in the field of CPS , as well as her administrative and counseling skills to the DIcor workshops.

Lastly, in her spare time, she enjoys ‘Cowboy Action Shooting’ with her husband (and committed DI volunteer) ‘Tensleep Bill’, and she’s still trying to teach her chocolate Lab Ellie to ‘fetch’.

Pat Schoonover, Ph.D. is a consultant who works with schools, businesses, and other organizations, teaches Creative Problem Solving graduate courses, and works in the field with educators.

Pat is Wisconsin’s Affiliate Director for Destination ImagiNation and director for Wisconsin Creative Problem Solving Programs, in the School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Pat has also worked many years in the area of gifted education and talent development. She was an elementary gifted education in a rural district and, Director of Gifted Programming and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She is part of the Core Team Leadership and member of the Board of Directors for Center for Creative Learning, Inc., in Sarasota, Florida.

Pat’s research, writing, and training interests focus on creativity, CPS, creativity style preferences, and leadership.

Pat, and her husband, Reid, live in Wisconsin. They have two grown sons.