Make learning more meaningful by teaching the whole game. David Perkins, a noted authority on teaching and learning and senior co-director of Project Zero, introduces a new, practical, and ...

Opportunities to engage with the ideas of PZ both in person and online throughout the year. This course challenged me in my own practices. I am already thinking about how to move forward to improve my ...

The Cultures of Thinking Project is a global initiative under the direction of Dr. Ron Ritchhart, a Principal Investigator and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of ...

Improving learning and collaboration by honing group and individual thinking processes.

The eight “studio habits of mind” (Develop Craft, Engage & Persist, Envision, Express, Observe, Reflect, Stretch & Explore, Understand Art Worlds) describe the thinking that teachers intend for their ...

Cultivating school cultures that value and support learning through play Play is central to how children learn—the way they form and explore friendships, the way they shape and test hypotheses, and ...

A vast array of PZ's work has explored the development of thinking, the concept of thinking dispositions, and the many ways routines can be used to support student learning and thinking across age ...

Designing curriculum, instruction, and assessment that nurtures deep and lasting understanding for students. Project Zero’s research on Teaching for Understanding helps educators to answer two ...

Project Zero makes its research accessible to educators around the world through online courses offered at various times throughout the year. These professional education courses are research-based ...

Learn a variety of thinking routines and how to use them effectively in classrooms and other learning contexts to support deeper learning and thinking for students, and to cultivate powerful and ...

The five distinct period of PZ's nearly 50-year-old history describe an organization that grew up from a few researchers at HGSE to a research center with 30+ employees. Learn more about PZ's past - ...

Teaching families the value of meaningful mealtime interaction. Over the past 20 years, research has shown what parents have known for a long time: sharing a fun family meal is good for the spirit, ...