Project Zero
@projectzerohgse.bsky.social
Educational research group @HarvardGSE
Dedicated to understanding and enhancing learning and thinking
https://pz.harvard.edu/
Dedicated to understanding and enhancing learning and thinking
https://pz.harvard.edu/
REGISTER: pz.harvard.edu/professional... PZ’s #thinkingroutines are accessed *millions of times* each year. Now’s your chance to dive into our most popular routines and get hands-on guidance on how to effectively implement them across ages, subjects, and settings!
August 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
REGISTER: pz.harvard.edu/professional... PZ’s #thinkingroutines are accessed *millions of times* each year. Now’s your chance to dive into our most popular routines and get hands-on guidance on how to effectively implement them across ages, subjects, and settings!
PZers recently celebrated the life of education visionary Carla Rinaldi. Read the beautiful tribute here: www.theremake.org/carlina-rina...
June 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
PZers recently celebrated the life of education visionary Carla Rinaldi. Read the beautiful tribute here: www.theremake.org/carlina-rina...
It was a full house in Pittsburgh for the annual Learning and Thinking That Make a Difference conference! Thank you to our wonderful session leaders and the incredible educators, administrators, and leaders who joined us!
May 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It was a full house in Pittsburgh for the annual Learning and Thinking That Make a Difference conference! Thank you to our wonderful session leaders and the incredible educators, administrators, and leaders who joined us!
🎉 Registration is LIVE: 2025-2026 Online PD with PZ 🎉
pz.harvard.edu/professional...
Explore PZ's new calendar of immensely popular, research-based, Harvard-developed online courses. Scholarships available!
pz.harvard.edu/professional...
Explore PZ's new calendar of immensely popular, research-based, Harvard-developed online courses. Scholarships available!
May 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
🎉 Registration is LIVE: 2025-2026 Online PD with PZ 🎉
pz.harvard.edu/professional...
Explore PZ's new calendar of immensely popular, research-based, Harvard-developed online courses. Scholarships available!
pz.harvard.edu/professional...
Explore PZ's new calendar of immensely popular, research-based, Harvard-developed online courses. Scholarships available!
🧑🏫 Communities of practice (COPs) can help educators feel more confident in their teaching and more optimistic about their impact on their students, according to new research from PZ’s @thegoodproject.bsky.social ! greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
How Communities of Practice Can Support Teachers
New research finds that COPs can help educators feel more confident in their teaching and more optimistic about impacting students.
greatergood.berkeley.edu
May 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
🧑🏫 Communities of practice (COPs) can help educators feel more confident in their teaching and more optimistic about their impact on their students, according to new research from PZ’s @thegoodproject.bsky.social ! greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
🎯 Expanding Our Circles of Care: The late Pope’s definition of ordo amoris and the “Rings of Responsibility”
by PZ's Shelby Clark of @thegoodproject.bsky.social www.thegoodproject.org/good-blog/20...
by PZ's Shelby Clark of @thegoodproject.bsky.social www.thegoodproject.org/good-blog/20...
Expanding Our Circles of Care: The late Pope’s definition of ordo amoris and the “Rings of Responsibility” — The Good Project
Expanding Our Circles of Care The late Pope’s definition of ordo amoris and the “Rings of Responsibility” April 29, 2025 Shelby Clark In a February letter to US bishops , the late Pope ...
www.thegoodproject.org
May 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
🎯 Expanding Our Circles of Care: The late Pope’s definition of ordo amoris and the “Rings of Responsibility”
by PZ's Shelby Clark of @thegoodproject.bsky.social www.thegoodproject.org/good-blog/20...
by PZ's Shelby Clark of @thegoodproject.bsky.social www.thegoodproject.org/good-blog/20...
Beyond “The Anxious Generation”: Helping Adolescents and Young Adults to Thrive in a Tech-filled World 📲🌱
🗓️ April 1, 6:00 p.m. ET
alumni.harvard.edu/programs-eve...
🗓️ April 1, 6:00 p.m. ET
alumni.harvard.edu/programs-eve...
Beyond "The Anxious Generation:" Helping Adolescents and Young Adults to Thrive in a Tech-filled World
A fireside chat with Dr. Carrie James and Dr. Julie Lee discussing helping adolescents and young adults to thrive in a tech-filled world
alumni.harvard.edu
March 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Beyond “The Anxious Generation”: Helping Adolescents and Young Adults to Thrive in a Tech-filled World 📲🌱
🗓️ April 1, 6:00 p.m. ET
alumni.harvard.edu/programs-eve...
🗓️ April 1, 6:00 p.m. ET
alumni.harvard.edu/programs-eve...
Diligence. Balance. Power. Trust.
Knowing what we value most makes it easier to respond to opportunities—and conflicts—with integrity. The Good Project’s Value Sort activity has helped thousands of people reflect upon what is most important to them. Start sorting! www.thegoodproject.org/value-sort
Knowing what we value most makes it easier to respond to opportunities—and conflicts—with integrity. The Good Project’s Value Sort activity has helped thousands of people reflect upon what is most important to them. Start sorting! www.thegoodproject.org/value-sort
March 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Diligence. Balance. Power. Trust.
Knowing what we value most makes it easier to respond to opportunities—and conflicts—with integrity. The Good Project’s Value Sort activity has helped thousands of people reflect upon what is most important to them. Start sorting! www.thegoodproject.org/value-sort
Knowing what we value most makes it easier to respond to opportunities—and conflicts—with integrity. The Good Project’s Value Sort activity has helped thousands of people reflect upon what is most important to them. Start sorting! www.thegoodproject.org/value-sort
Listen Now:🎙️"Perspective Taking: It's All in your Point of View," Thinkability Podcast, S4 E3
Perspective taking figures endlessly in our lives. But it isn't so easy to leave our regular selves behind: thinkability.substack.com
Perspective taking figures endlessly in our lives. But it isn't so easy to leave our regular selves behind: thinkability.substack.com
Thinkability | David Perkins | Substack
A podcast for people who like to think about thinking. Click to read Thinkability, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
thinkability.substack.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Listen Now:🎙️"Perspective Taking: It's All in your Point of View," Thinkability Podcast, S4 E3
Perspective taking figures endlessly in our lives. But it isn't so easy to leave our regular selves behind: thinkability.substack.com
Perspective taking figures endlessly in our lives. But it isn't so easy to leave our regular selves behind: thinkability.substack.com
@thegoodproject.bsky.social is not only one of PZ’s longest-running projects, it's also our Project of the Month! Started in '95 by Howard Gardner and other education leaders, TGP is still going strong. Explore their library of free resources and stay tuned for more posts. www.thegoodproject.org
March 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
@thegoodproject.bsky.social is not only one of PZ’s longest-running projects, it's also our Project of the Month! Started in '95 by Howard Gardner and other education leaders, TGP is still going strong. Explore their library of free resources and stay tuned for more posts. www.thegoodproject.org
CREATING CULTURES OF THINKING
March 10 to April 6, 2025
Join this course to demystify the creation of classroom and school culture and 🌱 plan the first steps for creating change in your learning culture today! Register now: pz.harvard.edu/.../creating....
March 10 to April 6, 2025
Join this course to demystify the creation of classroom and school culture and 🌱 plan the first steps for creating change in your learning culture today! Register now: pz.harvard.edu/.../creating....
February 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
CREATING CULTURES OF THINKING
March 10 to April 6, 2025
Join this course to demystify the creation of classroom and school culture and 🌱 plan the first steps for creating change in your learning culture today! Register now: pz.harvard.edu/.../creating....
March 10 to April 6, 2025
Join this course to demystify the creation of classroom and school culture and 🌱 plan the first steps for creating change in your learning culture today! Register now: pz.harvard.edu/.../creating....
REGISTER NOW for Visible Thinking (starts Feb. 24)! In small study groups with like-minded educators, you'll:
➡️ Choose your thinking routines
➡️ Plan your lessons
➡️ Share how it all went with your coach and team
➡️ Get feedback
➡️ Try again!
pz.harvard.edu/professional...
➡️ Choose your thinking routines
➡️ Plan your lessons
➡️ Share how it all went with your coach and team
➡️ Get feedback
➡️ Try again!
pz.harvard.edu/professional...
Visible Thinking: Using Thinking Routines Effectively to Cultivate Dispositions and Support Learning (VT) | Project Zero
We all become more effective as learners when we become aware of our learning processes and learn to manage how we think and learn. Visible Thinking, a research-based approach developed by Project Zer...
pz.harvard.edu
February 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
REGISTER NOW for Visible Thinking (starts Feb. 24)! In small study groups with like-minded educators, you'll:
➡️ Choose your thinking routines
➡️ Plan your lessons
➡️ Share how it all went with your coach and team
➡️ Get feedback
➡️ Try again!
pz.harvard.edu/professional...
➡️ Choose your thinking routines
➡️ Plan your lessons
➡️ Share how it all went with your coach and team
➡️ Get feedback
➡️ Try again!
pz.harvard.edu/professional...
The Economist tried “slow journalism” with @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social-winner Paul Salopek 👣.
PZ's The Open Canopy was born as an experimental collaboration with Paul when he began his walk out of Africa and has since connected 70K+ students in 70+ countries! 🌏
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
PZ's The Open Canopy was born as an experimental collaboration with Paul when he began his walk out of Africa and has since connected 70K+ students in 70+ countries! 🌏
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
A journalist retraces humanity’s journey out of Africa—on foot
The Economist tries “slow journalism” with Paul Salopek
www.economist.com
January 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The Economist tried “slow journalism” with @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social-winner Paul Salopek 👣.
PZ's The Open Canopy was born as an experimental collaboration with Paul when he began his walk out of Africa and has since connected 70K+ students in 70+ countries! 🌏
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
PZ's The Open Canopy was born as an experimental collaboration with Paul when he began his walk out of Africa and has since connected 70K+ students in 70+ countries! 🌏
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
Reposted by Project Zero
We’re accepting donations for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation to help fellow bookstore and comic book shop workers rebuild and recover. Harvard Book Store will match donations up to $1,000, donations accepted in-store or over the phone.
January 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We’re accepting donations for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation to help fellow bookstore and comic book shop workers rebuild and recover. Harvard Book Store will match donations up to $1,000, donations accepted in-store or over the phone.
A #thinkingroutine #IRL @harvardartmuseums! 💡🖼️
PZers “See, Think, Wonder” with different works of #art and then write a line of #poetry from the perspective of what each perceives to be the painting’s protagonist. Finally, we put it all together.
In what ways have you used a Thinking Routine?
PZers “See, Think, Wonder” with different works of #art and then write a line of #poetry from the perspective of what each perceives to be the painting’s protagonist. Finally, we put it all together.
In what ways have you used a Thinking Routine?
January 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM
A #thinkingroutine #IRL @harvardartmuseums! 💡🖼️
PZers “See, Think, Wonder” with different works of #art and then write a line of #poetry from the perspective of what each perceives to be the painting’s protagonist. Finally, we put it all together.
In what ways have you used a Thinking Routine?
PZers “See, Think, Wonder” with different works of #art and then write a line of #poetry from the perspective of what each perceives to be the painting’s protagonist. Finally, we put it all together.
In what ways have you used a Thinking Routine?
✂️🧩🎨Discover how to bring art and play together in new, meaningful ways! Whether you're looking to inspire imaginative thinking or enhance your art curriculum, don’t miss out on fresh ideas and practical techniques that will transform your classroom!
web.cvent.com/event/ec62ab...
web.cvent.com/event/ec62ab...
January 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
✂️🧩🎨Discover how to bring art and play together in new, meaningful ways! Whether you're looking to inspire imaginative thinking or enhance your art curriculum, don’t miss out on fresh ideas and practical techniques that will transform your classroom!
web.cvent.com/event/ec62ab...
web.cvent.com/event/ec62ab...
PZ’s Ellen Winner, a leading researcher of child prodigies, sits down with Susan Spencer on CBS Sunday Morning to discuss the laser focus (aka, a “rage to master”) of these gifted children—and a particular area in which they might be overlooked.
📽️ WATCH "Small Wonders" now! (~8 min.)
📽️ WATCH "Small Wonders" now! (~8 min.)
Small wonders: The brilliant, unique world of child prodigies
Math and physics are mere child's play to 12-year-old Suborno Bari, a child prodigy who began giving university lectures at age 7. Correspondent Susan Spencer talks with Suborno, who is currently atte...
www.cbsnews.com
January 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
PZ’s Ellen Winner, a leading researcher of child prodigies, sits down with Susan Spencer on CBS Sunday Morning to discuss the laser focus (aka, a “rage to master”) of these gifted children—and a particular area in which they might be overlooked.
📽️ WATCH "Small Wonders" now! (~8 min.)
📽️ WATCH "Small Wonders" now! (~8 min.)
On the #playground, friendship means *everything*—and those who appear "alone" aren't lacking. They're #rare. 💎 Discover how to cultivate a #culture of #connection and #empathy for all #children with PZer Jessica Dreyer.
#education #research
#education #research
You're not a loner, you're rare | Jessica Dreyer | TEDxLinz
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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December 16, 2024 at 6:43 PM
On the #playground, friendship means *everything*—and those who appear "alone" aren't lacking. They're #rare. 💎 Discover how to cultivate a #culture of #connection and #empathy for all #children with PZer Jessica Dreyer.
#education #research
#education #research
PZ’s The Open Canopy invites *any teacher worldwide* to sign up for free curricula , aka “learning journeys,” that pair students with peers 🎒📲🎒 from different socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds around the globe.
www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable...
www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable...
December 12, 2024 at 5:50 PM
PZ’s The Open Canopy invites *any teacher worldwide* to sign up for free curricula , aka “learning journeys,” that pair students with peers 🎒📲🎒 from different socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds around the globe.
www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable...
www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable...
PZ's Daniel Wilson talks with @elpais.com about rethinking homework: "It's hard to learn without real-life relevance."
english.elpais.com/education/20...
english.elpais.com/education/20...
Harvard’s Daniel Wilson: ‘We should rethink homework. It’s hard to learn without real-life relevance’
The director of Project Zero, the university’s teaching innovation lab, believes it will be ‘disastrous’ if the educational institutions continue to separate learning from everyday life
english.elpais.com
December 6, 2024 at 2:43 PM
PZ's Daniel Wilson talks with @elpais.com about rethinking homework: "It's hard to learn without real-life relevance."
english.elpais.com/education/20...
english.elpais.com/education/20...
Reposted by Project Zero
Weave metacognitive skill building into your lessons w/the incredible collection of thinking routines created by
@projectzerohgse.bsky.social!
The Power of See, Think, Wonder
Part I: Thinking About Thinking Series 👉🏻 bit.ly/3Sqx3yP
#edchat #k12 #edusky
@projectzerohgse.bsky.social!
The Power of See, Think, Wonder
Part I: Thinking About Thinking Series 👉🏻 bit.ly/3Sqx3yP
#edchat #k12 #edusky
December 5, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Weave metacognitive skill building into your lessons w/the incredible collection of thinking routines created by
@projectzerohgse.bsky.social!
The Power of See, Think, Wonder
Part I: Thinking About Thinking Series 👉🏻 bit.ly/3Sqx3yP
#edchat #k12 #edusky
@projectzerohgse.bsky.social!
The Power of See, Think, Wonder
Part I: Thinking About Thinking Series 👉🏻 bit.ly/3Sqx3yP
#edchat #k12 #edusky
Hey there, @bsky.app! 👋 We're excited to start sharing educational research with this great community. Get to know PZ at the 🔗 link in our bio.
December 4, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Hey there, @bsky.app! 👋 We're excited to start sharing educational research with this great community. Get to know PZ at the 🔗 link in our bio.