- Who We Are
- Topics
- By Subject Area
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- By Level
- Projects
- Projects Column 1
- Agency by Design
- Artful Thinking
- Arts Festival Impacts
- Causal Learning Projects
- Children Are Citizens
- Creating Communities of Innovation
- Cultures of Thinking
- EcoLEARN Projects
- Educating Global Citizens Through a US and China Lens
- Engaging the Arts and Museums with the World in Mind
- Global Children
- Globalizing the Classroom
- Projects Column 2
- Higher Education in the 21st Century
- Humanities and the Liberal Arts Assessment (HULA)
- Interdisciplinary & Global Studies
- Leading Learning that Matters
- Learning Innovations Laboratory
- Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn
- Making Learning Visible
- Multiple Intelligences
- Out of Eden Learn
- Pedagogy of Play
- PZ Connect
- Projects Column 3
- Projects Column 1
- Resources
- Professional Development
Projects
Projects are self-funded studies stemming from researchers' interests and backgrounds. Click below on the individual projects to learn more about current and previous work at PZ.
Projects
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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 Festival Impacts
Exploring impacts of a community arts festival
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.
Creating Communities of Innovation
Exploring educational innovations through networked inquiry.
Cultures of Thinking
Improving learning and collaboration by honing group and individual thinking processes.
EcoLearn Projects
Exploring the use of advanced immersive technologies to support learning about the complex causal dynamics of ecosystems
Engaging the Arts and Museums with the World in Mind
Examining how a deliberate global engagement with artworks and objects in museums and classrooms might contribute to nurturing global competence among museum visitors—especially students and educators
Global Children
Connecting teachers in the US and Japan to nurture global competence in early childhood
Globalizing the Classroom
Collaborating with PZ to plan and implement educational outreach around the centers' research.
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.
Interdisciplinary & Global Studies
Using multiple disciplines and perspectives to study today's global issues.
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 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
PZ Connect
PZ Connect is a collaboration between Project Zero and Independent Schools of Victoria (Australia).
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 Play Project
Exploring how young people navigate the positive opportunities and ethical challenges of digital life.
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 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.
Youth and Participatory Politics
Exploring young people’s use of digital media for civic participation.