Bringing Paul Baker’s Creative Learning Philosophy Into Today’s Classrooms
About the Baker Center
A home for creative and sensory learning
The Baker Center for Creative Learning is an independent home for Paul Baker’s work in creative and sensory education. Rooted in the Integration of Abilities, the Center preserves the ideas at the heart of Baker’s teaching while creating pathways for educators, schools, and communities to bring those ideas into practice today.
Through educator guidance, classroom resources, and future learning opportunities, the Center helps connect Baker’s legacy to experiences that engage the senses, body, imagination, intellect, and individual creative voice.
Our Mission
Creative and sensory learning for every student
The Baker Center for Creative Learning helps educators create learning experiences that engage the senses, the body, the imagination, and the individual creative voice.
We believe students learn more fully when they are invited to observe, move, listen, imagine, reflect, collaborate, and express themselves with confidence.
The Baker Center in Practice
Who We Serve
The Baker Center serves educators, schools, teaching artists, community programs, families, students, and partners who believe learning can be more alive, personal, creative, and fully human.
What We Provide
The Baker Center provides educator guidance, curriculum pathways, classroom resources, workshops, and future learning opportunities grounded in the principles of Integration of Abilities.
Why Children Benefit
Creative and sensory learning helps children build curiosity, confidence, expression, and a stronger ability to make meaning from the world around them.
Carrying the Work Forward
The Baker Center carries forward Paul Baker’s Integration of Abilities and his belief that creativity is central to learning.
The Center preserves Baker’s legacy while translating his ideas into resources educators can use today — including educator guidance, classroom materials, curriculum pathways, workshops, writing, and future training opportunities.
At its heart, this work is about helping students learn through the senses, the body, the imagination, and the individual creative voice.
Robyn Baker Flatt’s Stewardship
Robyn Baker Flatt has spent her life advancing theater, imagination, and creative education for young people. As Paul Baker’s daughter and co-founder of Dallas Children’s Theater, she brings both a direct connection to Baker’s philosophy and decades of experience building meaningful arts experiences for children, educators, schools, and communities.
Through her work, Robyn has carried forward a central belief of Paul Baker’s teaching: that the arts can help students discover who they are, how they perceive the world, and how they express their own creative voice.
Through the Baker Center for Creative Learning, Robyn is helping guide the next chapter of this work — preserving Paul Baker’s legacy while making his ideas usable for today’s educators, students, and schools.
Future Vision
Building partnerships for Paul Baker’s work
The Baker Center for Creative Learning is building a living home for Paul Baker’s legacy — one that preserves his ideas while developing resources, workshops, training opportunities, and partnerships that bring creative learning into more classrooms and communities.
The greatest opportunity ahead is collaboration. By partnering with educators, schools, universities, arts organizations, foundations, and community leaders, the Center can expand access to creative and sensory learning for students and teachers.
Individuals and organizations interested in supporting, partnering, or helping expand the work are invited to contact the Baker Center.
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Learn how educators can bring Paul Baker’s creative and sensory learning approach into the classroom through the Integration of Abilities, guided teaching practices, and resources designed for today’s students.
Credits and Source Lineage
The work of the Baker Center for Creative Learning is grounded in Paul Baker’s Integration of Abilities and in the creative education lineage carried forward by his family, collaborators, and teaching community.
Primary source lineage includes Paul Baker’s Integration of Abilities; Kitty Baker and Jearnine Wagner’s A Place for Ideas: Our Theater; and Robyn Baker Flatt’s Curtains Up On Reading, an arts-in-education program developed to integrate theater into the core curriculum and support children through theater-based learning.