Projects
Projects are self-funded studies stemming from researchers' interests and backgrounds. Click below on the individual projects to learn more about current and previous work at PZ.
Current PZ Projects
Aligned Programs for the 21st Century
aims to identify exemplary programs in higher education—courses, programs, and co-curricular activities—that bridge different perspectives among major stakeholders on college campuses.
Artful Thinking
Focus on experiencing and appreciating art as a way to help students develop ways of thinking that support thoughtful learning.
Arts as Civic Commons
Amplifying the Power of Art to Spark Civic Inquiry
Beyond the Self in Higher Education
Making ethics and character central to the college experience
Causal Learning Projects
Investigating how our causal assumptions influence our understanding of the world and helping learners to reason about complexity
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Center for Digital Thriving
We envision a future where humans can thrive in a tech-filled world.
Children Are Citizens
Helping young children gain a sense of citizenship to begin participating in democracy.
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Creando Comunidades de Indagación (Creating Communities of Inquiry)
A collaboration between Project Zero and Innova Schools Network to develop a culture of inquiry-driven teaching and learning.
Creating Communities of Innovation
Exploring educational innovations through networked inquiry.
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Cultivating Creative & Civic Capacities
Developing dispositions toward creative problem solving, nuance, imagination and empathy
Cultures of Thinking
Improving learning and collaboration by honing group and individual thinking processes.
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Digital Dilemmas
Designing dilemma-based classroom approaches and tools to revitalize digital citizenship education
EcoLearn Projects
Exploring the use of advanced immersive technologies to support learning about the complex causal dynamics of ecosystems
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Educating Global Citizens through a US and China Lens
Developing frameworks and tools designed to enhance students' understanding of the world and nurture global thinking dispositions.
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Envisioning Innovation in Education
Investigating inquiry, innovation, and learning design practices to affect local and system-wide change.
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Global Children
Connecting teachers in the US and Japan to nurture global competence in early childhood
Growing Up to Shape Our Place in the World
Seeks to develop an approach to Early Childhood and K-12 Education that is locally-rooted and globally informed.
Higher Education in the 21st Century
Studying today's college landscape to inform tomorrow's higher education.
Humanities & Liberal Arts Assessment (HULA)
HULA identifies and illuminates the implicit internal logics of humanistic craft in order to develop appropriate tools to assess, evaluate, and further develop projects and pedagogy in the humanities.
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Idea Into Action
A quest to translate ideas (principles, plans, good intentions, etc.) into action on the ground.
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Implementation of The Good Project Lesson Plans
Supporting Good Work in schools and through communities of practice.
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Inspiring Agents of Change
Schools that invite, expand, and sustain the creative mindsets of our youngest inventors
Interdisciplinary & Global Studies
Using multiple disciplines and perspectives to study today's global issues.
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Investigating Impacts of Educational Experiences
Exploring the effects of an international school network’s learning model on students, alumni, and society.
JusticexDesign
Investigating pedagogical tools and practices for supporting learners to become sensitive to designed injustices and re/imagine their participation in co-liberation
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Leadership Education and Playful Pedagogy (LEaPP)
Developing responsible leaders through meaningful, actively engaging, iterative, socially supportive, and joyful learning experiences
Leading Learning that Matters
Exploring leadership practices to enhance 21st century lives.
Learning Innovations Laboratory
Bringing together the leaders of organizational learning to develop a greater understanding of the field's current challenges.
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Learning Outside-In
Exploring how qualities of out-of-school learning experiences impact student well-being.
Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn
Helping schools create cultures of thinking and learning.
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Making Ethics Central to the College Experience: A Pilot Project
Placing a focus on making ethics more central to the college experience.
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Making Learning and Thinking Visible in Italian Secondary Schools
Building cultures of thinking in Italian secondary schools using the MLV and VT frameworks
Making Learning Visible
Creating strong learning cultures in schools using documentation as a tool to deepen and extend learning.
Multiple Intelligences
Challenging the standard view of intelligence.
Pedagogy of Play
Cultivating school cultures that value and support learning through play
PZ Connect
PZ Connect is a collaboration between Project Zero and Independent Schools of Victoria (Australia).
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Re-imagining Migration
Seeks to ensure that young people grow up understanding migration as a shared condition of our past, present, and future in order to develop the knowledge, empathy and mindsets that sustain inclusive and welcoming communities.
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Reimagining Early Childhood Education
An exploration of the opportunities and challenges facing early childhood education, today and tomorrow.
Rounds
Bringing educators together to assess and discuss issues in education.
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Signature Pedagogies in Global Education
Examining how exemplary teachers design signature learning experiences
Talking with Artists Who Teach
Understanding how teaching impacts artists' work and how their art impacts teaching.
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Teaching for Understanding
Designing curriculum, instruction, and assessment that nurtures deep and lasting understanding for students.
The Good Project
An ensemble of research projects designed to understand the nature of various “goods” and to promote their realization in our time.
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The Good Project - Dean's Venture Fund
Pursuing avenues to spread messages and instruments from The Good Project to a larger audience of educators and students through collaborations with complementary organizations, reformatting of existing resources, and other strategies.
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The Next Level Lab
Bringing together expertise in cognitive science, neuroscience, the learning sciences and innovative learning design and technology to address emerging and urgent issues in K-12 and workforce development
The Open Canopy (formerly known as Out of Eden Learn)
Exploring our neighborhoods, exploring our world.
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The Studio Thinking Project
A multi-year investigation in how the arts are taught, what students learn and how teachers design instruction for the arts
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The World in DC
Toward a new approach to locally-grounded global competence education
Visible Thinking
At the core of Visible Thinking are practices that help make thinking visible: Thinking Routines loosely guide learners' thought processes and encourage active processing.
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