CURRENT RESEARCH

PZ Connect

PZ Connect is a collaboration between Project Zero and Independent Schools of Victoria (Australia).

The PZ Connect project dovetailed with efforts underway to move beyond our typical (face-to-face) modes of outreach and professional development, and leveraged the affordances of online environments for supporting teaching and learning. There were three strands of the work: Outreach, Development, and Festivals. 

 

OUTREACH

Through this larger focus of the initiative, PZ researchers developed and facilitated various online activities to support teachers who seek to use Project Zero ideas in their classrooms. PZ topics for the pilot phases of delivering these online offerings included Teaching for Understanding, Making Learning Visible, Visible Thinking, Educating for Global Competence, and Teaching “Good Work” in the Classroom. 

 

DEVELOPMENT

PZ researchers developed thinking routines and other classroom tools to help learners engage with complexity, do perspective-taking, and develop global competence. 

 

FESTIVALS

Researchers explored how community festivals that make visible student and/or teacher work can engage broader audiences with the learning happening in schools.