The Office of School Partnerships

HGSE Programs and Projects Working with Educators and Schools

The Office of School Partnerships is only one of several programs and projects at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that provide many opportunities for educators, administrators and school leaders as well as others to engage in learning and benefit from research at HGSE. Please click on the links for more information.

The Harvard Educational Publishing Group publishes the Harvard Educational Review, a quarterly interdisciplinary journal that provides an interdisciplinary forum for innovative thinking and research in education, as well as the Harvard Education Letter, a bimonthly newsletter that summarizes new research and innovative practice in preK-12 education. The Harvard Education Press is a book publishing imprint of HEPG specializing in innovative, authoritative books covering critical issues in education.

The Principals' Center at HGSE is dedicated to the personal and professional development of school principals and that of the many others who influence the character and quality of a school. The Center provides aspiring and experienced school leaders across the nation and abroad with exemplary professional development to meet personal and professional challenges. The Principals Center sponsors professional development events throughout the year, as well as Summer Institutes.

Programs in Professional Education (PPE) designs and presents domestic and international professional development programs for educational leaders. PPE offers a variety of programs for elementary and secondary and higher education that make a difference - in the lives of students, in the work of institutions, and in the practice of educators. The work is designed to help educators deal more effectively with the challenges facing them today and in the future.

WIDE World - Online and On-site Professional Development develops and offers select online distance-learning professional education courses at the HGSE. WIDE World helps educators support their own and their students' deeper learning by providing a variety of coached online courses that apply research-based teaching and learning methods, and that explore the pedagogical principles of teaching for understanding, ongoing assessment, and reflective action which were developed at HGSE, Project Zero, and the Education Technology Center.

Harvard Family Research Project strives to increase the effectiveness of public and private organizations and communities as they promote child development, student achievement, healthy family functioning, and community development. In its relationships with national, state, and local partners, HFRP fosters a sustainable learning process—one that relies on the collection, analysis, synthesis, and application of information to guide problem-solving and decision-making.

The National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) at Harvard both informs and learns from practice. Its rigorous, high quality research increases knowledge and gives those teaching, managing, and setting policy in adult literacy education a sound basis for making decisions. NCSALL is also a leader in designing innovative professional development programs and in building support for research use.

Project Zero's mission is to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, as well as humanistic and scientific disciplines, at the individual and institutional levels. Project Zero's research programs span a wide variety of ages, academic disciplines, and sites, but share a common goal: the development of new approaches to help individuals, groups, and institutions learn to the best of their capacities.

Change Leadership Group Funded by a 5 year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the mission of the Change Leadership Group at HGSE is to: 1) continuously develop new knowledge about what is needed to initiate and sustain deep systemic changes in K-12 public education that result in improved learning for all students; 2) sponsor programs that strengthen the capacities of educational leaders and "change coaches" to implement systemic change; and 3) disseminate key learnings from this work to diverse professional audiences.

Office of School Partnerships seeks to link the resources of HGSE (research, teaching, professional development, service) with the priorities of the public school systems of Boston, Cambridge and neighboring cities and towns. The OSP provides information to area schools and district offices regarding resources and opportunities available at the HGSE, identifies faculty with particular expertise and research interests, and assists in the identification of sites for research projects, volunteers and interns. Toward its mission, OSP engages in a number of activities and programs with area districts and schools.