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Professional Development Scholarships
With generous support from the Saul Zaentz Foundation and many individual donations honoring Project Zero’s (PZ) 50th anniversary, Project Zero is able to offer professional learning scholarships to support a range of schools, districts, and organizations as well as a diverse group of educators. In particular, these scholarships aim to support educators working in under-resourced contexts and/or with historically marginalized students.
Qualified educators whose primary work is with learners in these settings can apply for a limited number of Project Zero Professional Learning Scholarships to reduce the tuition cost of PZ’s institutes, online courses, off-site conferences, and other PZ professional development events and activities.
The general eligibility guidelines are as follows:
- In the United States, public school educators working in schools with a free and reduced lunch rate of 25% or more OR educators working primarily with students who attend these schools.
- Outside of the United States, educators whose schools or organizations serve 25% or more students whose families meet the country-defined standard for low-income.
Please note that scholarship funding is limited and not every individual or team meeting the above eligibility guidelines will receive a scholarship. Generally, applications are considered on a first-come, first-serve basis. Most scholarships for institutes, online courses, and off-site conferences cover between 50% and 80% of the tuition. Scholarships for local events and other PZ professional development activities (including online mini-courses), which are all priced for accessibility, cover between 20% and 40% of the tuition. At this time, the scholarship funds are applicable to program tuition only and cannot be used to support travel or other expenses associated with attending or participating in the programs.
To apply for a scholarship, visit the registration page linked below of the professional development offering that you would like to attend. If you have any questions about the scholarship process, please contact pzlearn@gse.harvard.edu.
If you are interested in supporting this fund for educators, we invite you to visit the Support PZ’s Reach gift page.
Upcoming Offerings with Scholarship Applications
- Creating Cultures of Thinking: An Introduction
- Cultures of Thinking in Action
- Introduction to Maker-Centered Learning: Developing Student Agency & Sensitivity to Design
- Investigating the Forces that Shape Cultures of Thinking
- Let`s Play: Teaching Strategies for Playful Learning
- Making Learning Visible: The Power of Documentation to Support Individual and Group Learning (MLV)
- The Power of Making Thinking Visible
- Visible Thinking: Using Thinking Routines Effectively to Cultivate Dispositions and Support Learning (VT)