Creating strong learning cultures in schools using documentation as a tool to deepen and extend learning. Making Learning Visible has a goal to create and sustain powerful cultures of learning in ...

Focus on experiencing and appreciating art as a way to help students develop ways of thinking that support thoughtful learning. Artful Thinking helps teachers use works of visual art and music in ways ...

Thinking Routines invite learners of any age to be close observers, organize their ideas, to reason carefully, and to reflect on how they are making sense of things. A vast array of PZ's work has ...

Over the past decade there has been a resurgence of interest in making things—as opposed to merely consuming them—and the theme of making has risen to the surface in national and global conversations ...

An ensemble of research projects designed to understand the nature of various “goods” and to promote their realization in our time. Founded by psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William Damon, and ...

Designing curriculum, instruction, and assessment that nurtures deep and lasting understanding for students.

Hailed by educators throughout the world, Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences has been applied in hundreds of classrooms and school districts since Frames of Mind was first published in ...

At the core of Visible Thinking are practices that help make thinking visible: Thinking Routines loosely guide learners' thought processes and encourage active processing. Visible Thinking is a ...

The Studio Thinking Project, funded 2001-2007 by the J. Paul Getty Trust, studied the kinds of habits of mind implicitly and explicitly taught in strong visual arts classes, and the classroom ...

Play is at the heart of childhood. Through play, children learn how to collaborate, how to negotiate rules and relationships, and how to imagine and create. They learn to find and solve problems, ...

Improving learning and collaboration by honing group and individual thinking processes.