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Project Zero Project Zero is an educational research group at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. Project Zero's mission is to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, as well as humanistic and scientific disciplines, at the individual and institutional levels.

Ron Ritchhart - Senior Research Associate for Project Zero "Over the past five years, I have been collecting stories and examples of how teachers have been using the thinking routines in powerful ways in their classrooms. These were just published in a new book, Making Thinking Visible written with Mark Church and Karin Morrison. If you have been or want to start using thinking routines and more effective questioning to create a culture of thinking in your classroom or organization, this will be a useful resource."

Making Thinking Visible **Purpose and Goals** Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters. An extensive and adaptable collection of practices, Visible Thinking has a double goal: on the one hand, to cultivate students' thinking skills and dispositions, and, on the other, to deepen content learning. By thinking dispositions, we mean curiosity, concern for truth and understanding, a creative mindset, not just being skilled but also alert to thinking and learning opportunities and eager to take them.

Artful Thinking Artful Thinking is a program that was developed by Harvard Project Zero in collaboration with the Traverse City, Michigan Area Public Schools (TCAPS). The goal of the Artful Thinking program is to help students develop thinking dispositions that support thoughtful learning – in the arts, and across school subjects. The program is one of several programs at Project Zero linked by the theme “Visible Thinking."

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