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PZers recently celebrated the life of education visionary Carla Rinaldi. Read the beautiful tribute here: www.theremake.org/carlina-rina...

It was a full house in Pittsburgh for the annual Learning and Thinking That Make a Difference conference! Thank you to our wonderful session leaders and the incredible educators, administrators, and leaders who joined us!

🎉 Registration is LIVE: 2025-2026 Online PD with PZ 🎉
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Explore PZ's new calendar of immensely popular, research-based, Harvard-developed online courses. Scholarships available!

How Communities of Practice Can Support Teachers New research finds that COPs can help educators feel more confident in their teaching and more optimistic about impacting students.

🧑‍🏫 Communities of practice (COPs) can help educators feel more confident in their teaching and more optimistic about their impact on their students, according to new research from PZ’s @thegoodproject.bsky.social ! greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

Expanding Our Circles of Care: The late Pope’s definition of ordo amoris and the “Rings of Responsibility” — The Good Project Expanding Our Circles of Care The late Pope’s definition of ordo amoris and the “Rings of Responsibility” April 29, 2025 Shelby Clark  In a February letter to US bishops , the late Pope ...

🎯 Expanding Our Circles of Care: The late Pope’s definition of ordo amoris and the “Rings of Responsibility”
by PZ's Shelby Clark of @thegoodproject.bsky.social www.thegoodproject.org/good-blog/20...

Beyond "The Anxious Generation:" Helping Adolescents and Young Adults to Thrive in a Tech-filled World A fireside chat with Dr. Carrie James and Dr. Julie Lee discussing helping adolescents and young adults to thrive in a tech-filled world

Beyond “The Anxious Generation”: Helping Adolescents and Young Adults to Thrive in a Tech-filled World 📲🌱
🗓️ April 1, 6:00 p.m. ET

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Knowing what we value most makes it easier to respond to opportunities and conflicts with integrity.

Diligence. Balance. Power. Trust.
Knowing what we value most makes it easier to respond to opportunities—and conflicts—with integrity. The Good Project’s Value Sort activity has helped thousands of people reflect upon what is most important to them. Start sorting! www.thegoodproject.org/value-sort

Thinkability | David Perkins | Substack A podcast for people who like to think about thinking. Click to read Thinkability, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Listen Now:🎙️"Perspective Taking: It's All in your Point of View," Thinkability Podcast, S4 E3

Perspective taking figures endlessly in our lives. But it isn't so easy to leave our regular selves behind: thinkability.substack.com

PZ Project of the Month: The Good Project

A list of free tools from The Good Project that you can use today: -15-minute, 1-year, and 4-year lesson plans for teachers -A Value Sort activity to prompt conversation and reflection--their most popular tool! -A robust blog -18 professional development videos on everything from design thinking to "discussion tensions"

Fundamental Lessons is a set of sixteen 15-minute plans you can bring into the classroom now--from defining "good work" to identifying personal values.

Four ways you can implement Fundamental Lessons: have a debate, make a video, write a song, mind map it

@thegoodproject.bsky.social is not only one of PZ’s longest-running projects, it's also our Project of the Month! Started in '95 by Howard Gardner and other education leaders, TGP is still going strong. Explore their library of free resources and stay tuned for more posts. www.thegoodproject.org

Learn with Ron Ritchhart

With instructors Ron Ritchhart and Mark Church, you'll: ➡️ Review “stories of learning” that schools perpetuate ➡️ Explore the “new story of learning” you want to make for your students ➡️ Consider how “eight cultural forces” can help you to enact change ➡️ Examine how language shapes in deep and subtle ways

“This course has reshaped my whole thinking about how we as a school and teachers use language to tell the story of learning and thinking.”

CREATING CULTURES OF THINKING Exploring the Purpose and Promise of Schools March 10 to April 6, 2025 Registration closes March 2

CREATING CULTURES OF THINKING
March 10 to April 6, 2025

Join this course to demystify the creation of classroom and school culture and 🌱 plan the first steps for creating change in your learning culture today! Register now: pz.harvard.edu/.../creating....

REGISTER NOW for Visible Thinking (starts Feb. 24)! In small study groups with like-minded educators, you'll:

➡️ Choose your thinking routines
➡️ Plan your lessons
➡️ Share how it all went with your coach and team
➡️ Get feedback
➡️ Try again!

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Our free handbook (www.theopencanopy.org) offers many ways to help students slow down and observe the world closely, consider their online interactions, and promote intercultural exchange.

A journalist retraces humanity’s journey out of Africa—on foot The Economist tries “slow journalism” with Paul Salopek

The Economist tried “slow journalism” with @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social-winner Paul Salopek 👣.

PZ's The Open Canopy was born as an experimental collaboration with Paul when he began his walk out of Africa and has since connected 70K+ students in 70+ countries! 🌏
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We’re accepting donations for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation to help fellow bookstore and comic book shop workers rebuild and recover. Harvard Book Store will match donations up to $1,000, donations accepted in-store or over the phone.

A #thinkingroutine #IRL @harvardartmuseums! 💡🖼️

PZers “See, Think, Wonder” with different works of #art and then write a line of #poetry from the perspective of what each perceives to be the painting’s protagonist. Finally, we put it all together.

In what ways have you used a Thinking Routine?

We love seeing this and how it applies to our work, like Learning Outside-In which brings students into their communities as a classroom! Thanks for sharing!

✂️🧩🎨Discover how to bring art and play together in new, meaningful ways! Whether you're looking to inspire imaginative thinking or enhance your art curriculum, don’t miss out on fresh ideas and practical techniques that will transform your classroom!
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Thank you so much for being such a great partner of The Open Canopy!

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Small wonders: The brilliant, unique world of child prodigies Math and physics are mere child's play to 12-year-old Suborno Bari, a child prodigy who began giving university lectures at age 7. Correspondent Susan Spencer talks with Suborno, who is currently atte...

PZ’s Ellen Winner, a leading researcher of child prodigies, sits down with Susan Spencer on CBS Sunday Morning to discuss the laser focus (aka, a “rage to master”) of these gifted children—and a particular area in which they might be overlooked.
📽️ WATCH "Small Wonders" now! (~8 min.)

YouTube video by TEDx Talks You're not a loner, you're rare | Jessica Dreyer | TEDxLinz

On the #playground, friendship means *everything*—and those who appear "alone" aren't lacking. They're #rare. 💎 Discover how to cultivate a #culture of #connection and #empathy for all #children with PZer Jessica Dreyer.

#education #research

PZ’s The Open Canopy invites *any teacher worldwide* to sign up for free curricula , aka “learning journeys,” that pair students with peers 🎒📲🎒 from different socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds around the globe.

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Harvard’s Daniel Wilson: ‘We should rethink homework. It’s hard to learn without real-life relevance’ The director of Project Zero, the university’s teaching innovation lab, believes it will be ‘disastrous’ if the educational institutions continue to separate learning from everyday life

PZ's Daniel Wilson talks with @elpais.com about rethinking homework: "It's hard to learn without real-life relevance."

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Weave metacognitive skill building into your lessons w/the incredible collection of thinking routines created by
@projectzerohgse.bsky.social!

The Power of See, Think, Wonder

Part I: Thinking About Thinking Series 👉🏻 bit.ly/3Sqx3yP

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