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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

This project is focused on making ethics more central to the college experience. Based on our recently-completed national study of higher education, we are struck and disappointed by the lack of ...

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 ...

Children use recycled and repurposed materials to create sculptures that make different sounds. This activity connects with the creative practice of artist Nick Cave.

Disciplines ranging from history and the arts to biology and mathematics embody culturally valued knowledge and modes of thinking that deepen our understanding of the world and our capacity to create ...

The second in a suite of three data analysis tools, the Creating Communities of Innovation Creating a Purposeful Data Sample tool can be used to determine which data to strategically examine.

10 short videos by Melissa Rivard that track the development from start to finish of a Boston Public School preschool class's investigation into color, accompanied by a Teacher Study Guide. Also on ...

Children create nature sculptures using natural materials and clay. This activity connects with the creative practice of artists Anya Gallacio and Andy Goldsworthy.