Projects

Agency by Design

Exploring documentation and assessment strategies for maker-centered learning

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

Exploring the arts as a civic space for learning, dialogue and action

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.

Cultures of Thinking

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

Digital Dilemmas: Personal, Moral, and Ethical Quandaries of Youths’ Interconnected Lives

Conducting new research on the digital dilemmas youth face at present to support publications and new curriculum development.

Early Childhood in the Making, an initiative of Agency by Design

Exploring effective ways to incorporate maker-centered and STEAM learning in the early childhood classroom

EcoLearn Projects

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

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.

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 Across the Curriculum, an initiative of Agency by Design

Applying the practices and pedagogies of maker-centered learning across the content areas.

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

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 Family Dinner Project

Teaching families the value of meaningful mealtime interaction.

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 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.