Project Zero Classroom

Overview

How can the classroom become a place where today’s learners become the citizens and leaders of tomorrow? For more than fifty years, Project Zero has pioneered research that examines key facets of human potential such as intelligence and creativity, asking how educators and schools can design learning experiences that are engaging and exciting for all learners.

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From July 20 to 24, 2020, Project Zero will host its annual week-long institute, the Project Zero Classroom. In the company of PZ researchers and experienced educators from around the world, participants open up the questions at the heart of teaching and learning: What kinds of learning experiences and assessment practices will best prepare students for the demands of an unpredictable, ever-shifting future? How does understanding develop? How do we nurture critical and creative thinking? How do we ensure that all our students are learning?

Program Details

During this five-day institute, you will take part in a variety of learning activities that demonstrate Project Zero principles and strategies for teaching and learning. Through stimulating presentations, experiential workshops, and small learning groups, you will reflect on your current teaching and assessment practices and develop new approaches to planning and instruction that respond to the diverse ways in which your students engage and learn.

Objectives

The program explores fundamental educational questions, such as:

• What does it mean to understand? How does understanding develop?
• What are the roles of reflection and assessment in learning? 
• How can we nurture critical thinking and creativity?
• How can we design learning experiences for and with a variety of learners and contexts?

Who Should Participate

• Early childhood, elementary, middle, and secondary school educators;
• School administrators, teacher educators; and,
• Other educator roles including, but not limited to, artists, teaching artists, museum educators, after-school educators, nonprofit staff members.

Participants are strongly encouraged to attend in teams so that they can reflect together during and after the program. Individual participants are also welcome.

This program is highly interactive. Therefore, fluency in English is essential.

Fees & Policies

The comprehensive tuition includes all instructional materials and refreshments. Participants receive a certificate of participation and a letter confirming clock hours of instruction. Payment or a purchase order must be received within 30 days of program acceptance, or upon receipt of the invoice if acceptance is within 30 days prior to the start of the program. Click here for more information on payment.

Please click here for more information on our on-campus and online refund and withdrawal policies.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education reserves the right to change faculty or cancel programs at its discretion. In the unlikely event of program changes, the school is not responsible for non-refundable travel arrangements or other planning expenses incurred.

Project Zero Classroom Scholarship

With generous support from the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation and many individual donations honoring Project Zero’s (PZ) 50th anniversary, Project Zero is able to offer a limited number of professional learning scholarships to support a range of schools, districts, and organizations as well as a diverse group of educators to reduce the tuition cost of some of PZ’s programming. In particular, these scholarships aim to support teams of educators working in under-resourced contexts and/or with historically marginalized students.

For more information about scholarship eligibility and application process please visit the Scholarship Opportunities section of the Project Zero Portfolio page.