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- Agency by Design
- Artful Thinking
- Arts as Civic Commons
- Art|Play
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- 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
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- Growing Up to Shape Our Place in the World
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- 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
- Reimagining Early Childhood Education
- Re-imagining Migration
- ROUNDS
- Signature Pedagogies in Global Education
- Talking With Artists Who Teach
- Teaching for Understanding
- The Good Project
- The Good Starts 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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Tessa Forshaw
- Researcher
Tessa is an advance doctoral student and presidential scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. There, she is a researcher within the Next Level Lab at Project Zero, focusing on the development of cognitive and creative skills needed for the future of work. She leverages design based research practices and natural language processing methods.
Outside of research, Tessa teaches topics in design thinking and creativity at the Harvard University Division of Continuing Education, where she is teaching the first for credit class at the Harvard Innovation Lab.
Prior to Harvard, Tessa was on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Engineering Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the “d.school”) and worked at Accenture and the IDEO CoLab.