Thinking Routines invite learners of any age to be close observers, organize their ideas, to reason carefully, and to reflect on how they are making sense of things. A vast array of PZ's work has ...

Creating strong learning cultures in schools using documentation as a tool to deepen and extend learning. Making Learning Visible has a goal to create and sustain powerful cultures of learning in ...

Educational initiatives that emphasize making, design, engineering, and tinkering have been gaining traction in schools and organizations across the country. While maker-centered learning is not a new ...

Exploring how young people navigate the positive opportunities and ethical challenges of digital life. In 2017, the Good Play project entered a new phase of research. Led by Carrie James, Emily ...

Play is at the heart of childhood. Through play, children learn how to collaborate, how to negotiate rules and relationships, and how to imagine and create. They learn to find and solve problems, ...

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

Focus on experiencing and appreciating art as a way to help students develop ways of thinking that support thoughtful learning. Artful Thinking helps teachers use works of visual art and music in ways ...

Designing curriculum, instruction, and assessment that nurtures deep and lasting understanding for students.

The Studio Thinking Project, funded 2001-2007 by the J. Paul Getty Trust, studied the kinds of habits of mind implicitly and explicitly taught in strong visual arts classes, and the classroom ...

Preparing individuals to lead informed and fulfilling lives in dynamic knowledge societies requires that we nurture synthesizing minds. We must nurture individuals’ capacity to to knit together ...

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, ...