Projects

21st Century Excellence

A Curriculum and Teacher Professional Development Framework

Aligned Programs for the 21st Century

aims to identify exemplary programs in higher education—courses, programs, and co-curricular activities—that bridge different perspectives among major stakeholders on college campuses.

Artful Thinking

Focus on experiencing and appreciating art as a way to help students develop ways of thinking that support thoughtful learning.

Arts as Civic Commons

This project develops educational resources and tools for schools, museums, and other learning contexts that encourage learners to explore the complexity of contemporary civic themes through looking at and making art.

Causal Learning Projects

Investigating how our causal assumptions influence our understanding of the world and helping learners to reason about complexity

Children Are Citizens

Helping young children gain a sense of citizenship to begin participating in democracy.

Creando Comunidades de Indagación (Creating Communities of Inquiry)

A collaboration between Project Zero and Innova Schools Network to develop a culture of inquiry-driven teaching and learning.

Creating Communities of Innovation

Exploring educational innovations through networked inquiry.

Cultivating Creative & Civic Capacities

Developing dispositions toward creative problem solving, nuance, imagination and empathy

Cultures of Thinking

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

Digital Dilemmas

Designing dilemma-based classroom approaches and tools to revitalize digital citizenship education

EcoLearn Projects

Exploring the use of advanced immersive technologies to support learning about the complex causal dynamics of ecosystems

Educating Global Citizens through a US and China Lens

Developing frameworks and tools designed to enhance students' understanding of the world and nurture global thinking dispositions.

Envisioning Innovation in Education

Investigating inquiry, innovation, and learning design practices to affect local and system-wide change.

Global Children

Connecting teachers in the US and Japan to nurture global competence in early childhood

Higher Education in the 21st Century

Studying today's college landscape to inform tomorrow's higher education.

Humanities & Liberal Arts Assessment (HULA)

HULA identifies and illuminates the implicit internal logics of humanistic craft in order to develop appropriate tools to assess, evaluate, and further develop projects and pedagogy in the humanities.

Idea Into Action

A quest to translate ideas (principles, plans, good intentions, etc.) into action on the ground.

Inspiring Agents of Change

Schools that invite, expand, and sustain the creative mindsets of our youngest inventors

Interdisciplinary & Global Studies

Using multiple disciplines and perspectives to study today's global issues.

Investigating Impacts of Educational Experiences

Exploring the effects of an international school network’s learning model on students, alumni, and society.

Leading Learning that Matters

Exploring leadership practices to enhance 21st century lives.

Learning Innovations Laboratory

Bringing together the leaders of organizational learning to develop a greater understanding of the field's current challenges.

Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn

Helping schools create cultures of thinking and learning.

Making Ethics Central to the College Experience: A Pilot Project

Placing a focus on making ethics more central to the college experience.

Making Learning and Thinking Visible in Italian Secondary Schools

Building cultures of thinking in Italian secondary schools using the MLV and VT frameworks

Making Learning Visible

Creating strong learning cultures in schools using documentation as a tool to deepen and extend learning.

Multiple Intelligences

Challenging the standard view of intelligence.

Out of Eden Learn

Exploring our neighborhoods, exploring our world.

Pedagogy of Play

Cultivating school cultures that value and support learning through play

Re-imagining Migration

Seeks to ensure that young people grow up understanding migration as a shared condition of our past, present, and future in order to develop the knowledge, empathy and mindsets that sustain inclusive and welcoming communities.

Rounds

Bringing educators together to assess and discuss issues in education.

Signature Pedagogies in Global Education

Examining how exemplary teachers design signature learning experiences

Talking with Artists Who Teach

Understanding how teaching impacts artists' work and how their art impacts teaching.

Teaching for Understanding

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

The Good Project

An ensemble of research projects designed to understand the nature of various “goods” and to promote their realization in our time.

The Good Project - Dean's Venture Fund

Pursuing avenues to spread messages and instruments from The Good Project to a larger audience of educators and students through collaborations with complementary organizations, reformatting of existing resources, and other strategies.

The Studio Thinking Project

A multi-year investigation in how the arts are taught, what students learn and how teachers design instruction for the arts

The World in DC

Toward a new approach to locally-grounded global competence education

Visible Thinking

At the core of Visible Thinking are practices that help make thinking visible: Thinking Routines loosely guide learners' thought processes and encourage active processing.