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Investigating the Forces that Shape Cultures of Thinking
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COST: Starting at $355
Effective teaching requires not only good planning and thoughtful instruction, but careful attention to classroom culture. In this mini course, learn about the eight cultural forces, with a special focus on four of those forces (modeling, opportunities, interactions, and environment) and how to leverage them to create cultures that support students in deep learning and thinking. Reflect critically on your own work as an educator while acquiring new tools, practices, and principles that will help you promote the deep learning of your students.
Developing Thinking Dispositions: When Thinking Becomes Routine
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COST: Starting at $355
Delve further into the core principles of Visible Thinking, emphasizing its power to cultivate not only essential thinking skills but also thinking dispositions in students. Through the continued exploration of an expanded set of thinking routines, participants will learn practical strategies for empowering students to develop lasting thinking habits, leading to deeper content understanding and a more thoughtful approach to learning.
Project Spotlight
Learning Innovations Laboratory
Learning Innovations Laboratory (LILA) is a consortium of leading researchers and practitioners in the field of organizational learning and change. Through creating social connections, crafting insights, and having a practical impact, LILA strives to learn more about today's challenges in the field. LILA is composed of members from three areas: organizational leaders from private, public, and non-profit sectors; faculty scholars; and Project Zero researchers and Harvard graduate students.
The Book Nook
What PZers are reading—and writing—right now!
Leading Learning That Matters
How can school learning be expanded to matter more in learners’ lives? How can school leaders shape an institution to stay true to its core commitments and thrive as a center of contemporary learning? Leading Learning that Matters offers a flexible process to help school leaders and their communities construct a vision of what learning really matters for the lives their learners are likely to live and then make that vision a daily reality in classrooms.
Thinking Routine of the Month
See Think Me We
Choose an artwork or image. This thinking routine encourages close looking, sharing thoughts, making personal connections, and reaching for connections beyond the self.
- SEE Look closely at the work. what do you notice? Make lots of observations.
- THINK What thoughts do you have about the work?
- ME What connections can you make between you and the work?
- WE How might the work be connected to bigger stories—about the world and our place in it?
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