DESE Civics Pathways is a free professional learning series for K-12 teachers that focuses on civics instruction and learning. Educators can choose from multiple workshops and online modules to ...

Global Thinking offers thinking routines that foster understanding and appreciation of today's complex globalized world. The materials and tools include a framework to think about global competence ...

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 ...

Every generation confronts the challenge of discerning what capacities and dispositions are the most important to nurture among its young people at a given moment in time. Today, profound economic, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exploring our neighborhoods, exploring our world. In this era of interconnection, disconnection, and rapid change, it is vitally important to offer young people opportunities to dialogue and build ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

relationship between Project Zero and TCAPS.

Art and design is all around us, from the objects that we make and use, to the complex systems we participate in, to the ideas we imagine and construct. With a foundational focus on learning and the ...