PZ Certification

To complete certification in Visible Thinking, you must complete the following three mini courses in any order:

1. Using Thinking Routines Effectively
   Through exploration of research and hands-on practice, you’ll discover how thinking routines are powerful tools and structures for developing students’ patterns of thinking behavior. 
2. The Power of Making Thinking Visible
   Develop a better understanding of the power of thinking routines, and learn how the most effective teachers use thinking routines for maximum impact. 
3. Developing Thinking Dispositions: When Thinking Becomes Routine
   In this continued exploration of an expanded set of thinking routines, learn practical strategies for empowering students to develop lasting thinking habits, leading to deeper content understanding and a more thoughtful approach to learning.

To complete certification in Cultures of Thinking, you must complete the following three mini courses in any order:

1. Investigating the Forces that Shape Cultures of Thinking
   Explore the eight cultural forces and how to leverage them to create cultures that support students in deep learning and thinking. 
2. Creating Cultures of Thinking: Exploring the Purpose and Promise of Schools
   Learn why classroom culture matters deeply to what and how students learn, and analyze the culture of your own classroom, school, or learning context.  
3. Cultures of Thinking in Action
   Develop your skill with tools that you can use to turn your classroom or learning context into a community in which thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted.

1. You've finished the courses. 
2. You've completed the Performance of Understanding. 
3. You've earned a Project Zero certification in a core PZ idea!

Now, you can share these ideas within your school, museum, network, and more.