PZC Scholarships

Through the generosity of many donors, PZ is able to offer professional learning scholarships to support a range of schools, districts, and organizations, as well as a diverse group of educators. These scholarships aim to support educators working in under-resourced contexts and/or with historically marginalized students.

Before applying, please note the Project Zero Classroom (PZC) scholarship eligibility guidelines.

  • Must be United States public school educators working in schools with a free and reduced lunch rate of 30% or more, Title I schools, OR educators working primarily with students who attend these schools in the United States. (Note: At the present time, we cannot offer PZC scholarships to educators outside the United States. Scholarships for other PZ offerings, including online courses, are available to educators outside the United States.)
  • Educators must work directly with students in a classroom setting on a daily basis, and/or serve as leaders and/or administrators in schools or other organizations that enroll students in classroom settings on a daily basis.
  • Past PZC scholarship recipients are not eligible.

Additional details:

  • The PZC scholarship application has a rolling deadline. However, scholarship decisions are made on a first-come, first-served basis. With a rolling deadline and limited scholarship funds, we anticipate PZC scholarship funding to be awarded well before February 11, 2026 (the registration/payment deadline) and encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
  • PZC scholarship awards will cover 30-50% of the program tuition.
  • Scholarship funds are for program tuition only. Attendees are responsible for their own airfare, hotel, food, and other travel fees.
  • Payment is not required at the time of your registration. However, full payment is due by February 11, 2026 or within 4 weeks of registering - whichever comes first. If your organization will need additional time to submit a payment, you must get permission from Project Zero for an extension. If you will not be paying when you register, please select “Check, Wire, Purchase Order, or Other.” If you are not able to pay by February 11, contact Project Zero staff to request an extension at pzlearn@gse.harvard.edu.
  • Scholarship applicants may apply as groups (of up to 6 people) or as individuals. Groups only complete one application on behalf of all team members. While a school/organization may register up to 10 educators for PZC, scholarship funding is limited to a maximum of 6 participants per school/organization. (Due to limited availability of funding, some schools/organizations may be awarded scholarships for fewer participant spots than requested.)

How to apply: 

  1. Complete the registration form stating your role as a prospective PZC attendee and indicating that you intend to apply for a scholarship. Within two business days after the form is submitted, we will send you an email from pzlearn@gse.harvard.edu with links to access the PZC registration site and scholarship application form.
  2. Complete the scholarship application before completing your registration. You should wait to register and pay/commit to PZC payment until you hear back about your scholarship request–if you register and pay before applying for a scholarship, you will not be eligible to submit a scholarship application.
  3. Hear back from PZ on your scholarship application status and complete registration and payment for the PZC. If you receive a scholarship offer, your award email will come with a deadline to reply and register, and a scholarship discount code to use in the payment page when you ultimately register.

Notes about scholarship applications:

  • Scholarship applications are reviewed in the order they are received. Once you have submitted the scholarship application, you will receive an email from PZ confirming receipt of your application. All scholarship decisions will be sent via email up to 10 business days of a completed submission. (Project Zero will be closed November 26-28, and between December 23 and January 1. If you have submitted the scholarship application form during these dates, please anticipate a delay in our response due to the closures.)
  • Documentation to support that the applicant meets the criteria for the scholarship is required at the time of application submission. Incomplete applications missing the required documentation of eligibility will be returned.
  • Group applicants only: If you are applying for a scholarship as part of a group, only one MAIN scholarship application is required on behalf of your group. The lead applicant for your group should select that they are filling this form out “on behalf of a group”; they will have some extra questions to fill out regarding your organization’s eligibility. However, EVERY member of a group applying for a scholarship must still complete a shortened version of this form by indicating that they are filling this form out “as an individual member of a group.” (The lead applicant will be given a link to distribute to all group members.) This version of the form includes demographic information and a short-answer section (maximum 250 words) about the intended impact of each individual’s participation in the 2026 PZC. The lead applicant will receive an email each time an individual member completes the form. Your scholarship application will only be considered complete when ALL individuals within the group fill out the form. The lead applicant is responsible for coordinating individual group members’ responses; PZ is not able to follow up on incomplete applications.

If you are offered a scholarship:

  • You must reply to the offer email and complete registration within 5 business days of the scholarship offer email to accept, under the conditions that the remaining balance will be paid within 4 weeks of accepting the scholarship offer or by February 11, 2026, whichever comes first.
    • If you do not reply to accept a scholarship offer within the 5-business-day deadline, or if you accept a scholarship offer but do not pay within the stated deadline date, you risk losing your scholarship.
  • After the conclusion of the institute, scholarship recipients may be asked to complete a short, open-response survey to describe the impact of the PZC on their learning and work. In accepting a scholarship, participants agree to respond to this survey within three weeks of receiving it.

Questions about the scholarship process should be directed to pzlearn@gse.harvard.edu with the subject line “PZC scholarship question.”