Shari Tishman

Lecturer on Education
Arts in Education Program
Research Associate in Education Project Zero

Profile

Shari Tishman is the Director of Harvard Project Zero and a Lecturer on Education at HGSE. She is interested in understanding and designing environments and instructional approaches that help people learn how to think. Her research focuses on the development of thinking and understanding, learning in and through the arts, and learning in museums. Recent projects include: The Qualities of Quality: Excellence in Arts Education and How to Achieve It, an examination of how arts educators and arts programs in diverse contexts and communities across the United States define the characteristics of excellence—the “qualities of quality”—in arts teaching and learning; Learning in and from Museum Study Centers, an investigation into how visitors learn in the Harvard Art Museums’ study centers; Artful Thinking, a program that helps classroom teachers use works of art in subjects across the curriculum in ways that strengthen student thinking and learning; and Visible Thinking, an approach to the teaching of thinking that emphasizes the development of thinking dispositions, the use of “thinking routines,” and the documentation of student thinking and learning.

Degrees

• Ed.D., Harvard University