Project Zero to Host First West Coast Conference

Project Zero, a research organization based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, will be holding its first West Coast conference October 10-12, 2014 in San Francisco, CA. With its over-arching theme, Project Zero Perspectives: Making, Thinking, Understanding, the conference will invite educators to reflect deeply on ways to create and sustain engaging, enriching, and rigorous learning opportunities. It will be held at the Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco.

This two-day conference will focus on:

• educating for global competence,
• encouraging creativity and “maker thinking” in children,
• growing up in the digital age, and
• making learning and thinking visible.

The conference will feature plenary sessions (speakers include Carrie James, David Perkins, Ron Ritchhart, Shari Tishman, Daniel Wilson, and other Project Zero researchers) and a selection of small, interactive courses led by researchers and practitioners who are currently using Project Zero ideas in schools, museums, and other learning environments.

Making, Thinking, Understanding is hosted by CASIE (Center for the Advancement and Study of International Education) in collaboration with Project Zero and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. For more information, and to register, please visit: http://www.casieonline.org/events/pz/sf.

Project Zero is an educational research group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. 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.

For more information, please contact Jordy Oakland at jordy_oakland@harvard.edu.