- Who We Are
- Topics
- By Subject Area
- dummy
- By Level
- Projects
- Projects Column 1
- Agency by Design
- Aligned Programs for the 21st Century
- Artful Thinking
- Arts as Civic Commons
- Causal Learning Projects
- Children Are Citizens
- 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
- Higher Education in the 21st Century
- Humanities and the Liberal Arts Assessment (HULA)
- Projects Column 2
- 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 to Think, Thinking to Learn
- Making Across the Curriculum, an initiative of Agency by Design
- Making Learning and Thinking Visible in Italian Secondary Schools
- Making Learning Visible
- Multiple Intelligences
- Navigating Workplace Changes
- 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 Next Level Lab
- 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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- Projects Column 1
- Resources
- Professional Development

Sarah Alvord is the Senior Manager of Special Projects. She is responsible for leading the strategic development and execution of a portfolio of initiatives that build upon current research projects, expand PZ’s reach and impact with practitioners, both domestically and internationally, and strengthen engagement with current HGSE students and alumni. Prior to joining Project Zero, she served as the Program Manager for Pathways to Prosperity, an initiative focused on building systems of career pathways linking high school, work, and community college, and as the Administrative Director of the Executive Leadership Program for Educators (ExEL), an initiative supporting senior leaders in large urban districts and state departments of education to improve their leadership capacity to strengthen teaching and learning throughout their systems. She spent her first five years at the university at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations working on domestic and international projects and the doctoral fellowship program. She began her career as an instructional assistant in a rural high school special education department and has since worked in mental health, philanthropy, and higher education.