Project Zero Classroom

Discover research-based practices that promote critical thinking, curiosity, and creativity.

Overview

How can the classroom become a place where today’s learners become the citizens and leaders of tomorrow? For 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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Project Zero Classroom presents the best of this research, offering tools and approaches that educators can implement in their own classrooms to develop 21st century skills and habits in their students. Participants learn how to design interdisciplinary curriculum that attends to the ethical, aesthetic, and social dimensions of learning, and they explore instructional methods that deepen student engagement, model intellectual curiosity and rigor, and make learning more visible.

Program Details

During this five-day institute, you will take part in a variety of learning activities that demonstrate Project Zero principles and are facilitated by researchers and educators steeped in these practices. Through provocative plenary sessions, experiential workshops, and small study groups, you will deepen your understanding of how effective learning happens, and you will leave with concepts and tools that you can put into practice immediately.

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 a variety of learners and contexts?

Who Should Attend

• Early childhood, elementary, middle, and secondary school educators
• School administrators, teacher educators
• After-school educators and museum educators

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.

PZ Reach Professional Development Scholarships

There are opportunities to financially support teachers interested in using PZ ideas to reach learners in underserved or under-resourced settings (e.g. educators working in Title I public schools or in areas with large numbers of families affected by immigration and/or displacement, or settings with high rates of identity-based violence.) There are a limited number of PZ Reach Professional Development Scholarships available and educators who apply to the institute as a member of a team will be given preference. Click here to download the application and for further details. Applications must be submitted by March 15, 2018 for consideration, and applicants will receive notification by March 31, 2018.