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- Projects Column 1
- Agency by Design
- Aligned Programs for the 21st Century
- Artful Thinking
- Arts as Civic Commons
- Causal Learning Projects
- Center for Digital Thriving
- Citizen-Learners: A 21st Century Curriculum and Professional Development Framework
- Creando Comunidades de Indagación (Creating Communities of Inquiry)
- Creating Communities of Innovation
- Cultivating Creative & Civic Capacities
- Cultures of Thinking
- EcoLEARN Projects
- Educating with Digital Dilemmas
- Envisioning Innovation in Education
- Global Children
- Growing Up to Shape Our Place in the World
- Projects Column 2
- Higher Education in the 21st Century
- HipHopEX
- Humanities and the Liberal Arts Assessment (HULA)
- Idea Into Action
- Implementation of The Good Project Lesson Plans
- Inspiring Agents of Change
- Interdisciplinary & Global Studies
- Investigating Impacts of Educational Experiences
- JusticexDesign
- Leadership Education and Playful Pedagogy (LEaPP)
- Leading Learning that Matters
- Learning Innovations Laboratory
- Learning Outside-In
- Making Ethics Central to the College Experience
- Making Learning Visible
- Multiple Intelligences
- Navigating Workplace Changes
- Next Level Lab
- Projects Column 3
- Out of Eden Learn
- Pedagogy of Play
- Reimagining Digital Well-being
- Re-imagining Migration
- ROUNDS
- Signature Pedagogies in Global Education
- Talking With Artists Who Teach
- Teaching for Understanding
- The Good Project
- The Studio Thinking Project
- The World in DC
- Transformative Repair
- Visible Thinking
- Witness Tree: Ambassador for Life in a Changing Environment
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What we are doing
Project Zero has become more explicit in confronting issues of injustice, racism, and inequities in who we are and how we work. In recent years, several fronts have emerged as sustained areas of focus:
- Project design: Supporting researchers and projects to hone questions to reflect contemporary issues of injustice; develop positionality statements; critically assess methods to ensure equity and access; and create project work processes that support inclusion and belonging.
- Researcher recruitment: Working with the Human Resources office at HGSE to revise job descriptions and expand how they are disseminated in order to reach a more diverse pool of candidates; welcoming visiting scholars and researchers from diverse contexts and backgrounds; and fundraising for BIPOC doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers at Project Zero.
- Staff development: Providing internal funding to staff members to attend non-Harvard events and access external resources for their development; continuing to convene regular internal groups that include leaders at all levels to engage in learning about and applying topics of diversity, identities, equity, anti-racist pedagogy, inclusion, and justice in their work and lives.
- Creating access: Offering scholarships to educators working in historically marginalized and under-resourced communities in order to make PZ professional development opportunities more accessible. Since 2018, over 2,000 educators have received financial support from the generous support of donations and the Saul Zaentz Project Zero Professional Development Fund to engage in PZ workshops, conferences, and online courses.
We recognize that these are initial steps. Given the magnitude of the challenge of bringing about a more just world, we have much more to do to ensure that our work plays its part in explicitly addressing and dismantling systems of oppression, injustice, and racism. We acknowledge that we will not get it right every time, and that our missteps are a necessary part of our learning process. Our actions to create and sustain a strong and effective equity stance in our work, workplace, and world will evolve as our understanding deepens, and we expect to update this statement to reflect that work and learning.