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Educational research group @HarvardGSE Dedicated to understanding and enhancing learning and thinking pz.harvard.edu

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Project Zero @projectzerohgse.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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!
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Project Zero @projectzerohgse.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
PZers recently celebrated the life of education visionary Carla Rinaldi. Read the beautiful tribute here: www.theremake.org/carlina-rina...
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Project Zero @projectzerohgse.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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!
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Project Zero @projectzerohgse.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🎉 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!
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Project Zero @projectzerohgse.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🧑‍🏫 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...
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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.
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Project Zero @projectzerohgse.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🎯 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...
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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 ...
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Project Zero @projectzerohgse.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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...
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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
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Project Zero @projectzerohgse.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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.
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Project Zero @projectzerohgse.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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
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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.
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Project Zero @projectzerohgse.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
@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
PZ Project of the Month: The Good ProjectA list of free tools from The Good Project that you can use today:
-15-minute, 1-year, and 4-year lesson plans for teachers
-A Value Sort activity to prompt conversation and reflection--their most popular tool!
-A robust blog
-18 professional development videos on everything from design thinking to "discussion tensions"Fundamental Lessons is a set of sixteen 15-minute plans you can bring into the classroom now--from defining "good work" to identifying personal values.Four ways you can implement Fundamental Lessons: have a debate, make a video, write a song, mind map it
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Project Zero @projectzerohgse.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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....
Learn with Ron RitchhartWith instructors Ron Ritchhart and Mark Church, you'll:

➡️ Review “stories of learning” that schools perpetuate

➡️ Explore the “new story of learning” you want to make for your students

➡️ Consider how “eight cultural forces” can help you to enact change

➡️ Examine how language shapes in deep and subtle ways“This course has reshaped my whole thinking about how we as a school and teachers use language to tell the story of learning and thinking.”CREATING CULTURES OF THINKING
Exploring the Purpose and Promise of Schools


March 10 to April 6, 2025
Registration closes March 2
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Project Zero @projectzerohgse.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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...
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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...
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Project Zero @projectzerohgse.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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...
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A journalist retraces humanity’s journey out of Africa—on foot
The Economist tries “slow journalism” with Paul Salopek
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Harvard Book Store @harvardbookstore.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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.
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Project Zero @projectzerohgse.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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?
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Project Zero @projectzerohgse.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
✂️🧩🎨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...
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Project Zero @projectzerohgse.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
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.)
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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...
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Project Zero @projectzerohgse.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
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
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You're not a loner, you're rare | Jessica Dreyer | TEDxLinz
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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Project Zero @projectzerohgse.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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...
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Project Zero @projectzerohgse.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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...
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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
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Dr. Catlin Tucker @catlintucker.com · 05/12/2024
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
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Project Zero @projectzerohgse.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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.
We're excited to be here! PZ logo
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