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Certification Programs in Visible Thinking and Cultures of Thinking
Certification Programs in Visible Thinking and Cultures of Thinking
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Join PZ's new certification program to deepen your understanding of one of two core concepts: Visible Thinking (VT) or Cultures of Thinking (COT). Equip yourself with powerful strategies to transform your learning context, and gain job-embedded feedback in team-based learning experiences.
Thinkability The Art of Perspective Taking
Thinkability The Art of Perspective Taking
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Perspective taking is the experience of stepping outside of our present vantage point to try to perceive someone or something from a different point of view.  It’s easy enough to describe, but what does it look like in practice? How can we do it well?
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Introducing a new but long anticipated PZ resource! The Thinking Routines Toolbox - a collection of more than 80 PZ Thinking Routines all accessible in one common place. Here's to thinking and learning!

Professional Development
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Creating Cultures of Thinking

Creating Cultures of Thinking: Exploring the Purpose and Promise of Schools

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COST: Starting at $355

To develop engaged and empowered learners, we need to address not only the curriculum and our instruction, but also the culture of our schools. In this course, learn about why classroom culture matters deeply to what and how students learn, and analyze the culture of your own classroom, school, or learning context. Explore the cultural force of “language” and its power to shape students’ learning and thinking.
 

The Power of Making Thinking Visible

The Power of Making Thinking Visible

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COST: Starting at $355

With the growing popularity of Thinking Routines has come the opportunity to research the impact they have on teaching, learning, and schooling. In this course, learn how the most effective teachers use thinking routines for maximum impact by employing the core practices of listening, questioning, and documentation. Develop a better understanding of the power of thinking routines, for both teachers and students. Try out core practices associated with making thinking visible, and learn how they relate to and interact with one another.

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Project Spotlight

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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!

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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

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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?