What does it take to be truly successful in the long run? If you think the answer is "be smart" and "work hard" you need to see and hear my talk.

Cultivating school cultures that value and support learning through play Play is central to how children learn—the way they form and explore friendships, the way they shape and test hypotheses, and ...

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, ...

Opportunities to engage with the ideas of PZ both in person and online throughout the year. At the end of this school year, I felt more depleted than I can ever remember during my entire teaching ...

Teaching families the value of meaningful mealtime interaction. Over the past 20 years, research has shown what parents have known for a long time: sharing a fun family meal is good for the spirit, ...

In comparing MI to traditional psychological view of intelligence, one might find it useful to think of them analogously as if they were computers. Belief in a single intelligence implies that humans ...

Creating strong learning cultures in schools using documentation as a tool to deepen and extend learning.

The five distinct period of PZ's nearly 50-year-old history describe an organization that grew up from a few researchers at HGSE to a research center with 30+ employees. Learn more about PZ's past - ...

Exploring how young people navigate the positive opportunities and ethical challenges of digital life. In 2017, the Good Play project entered a new phase of research. Led by Carrie James, Emily ...

A vast array of PZ's work has explored the development of thinking, the concept of thinking dispositions, and the many ways routines can be used to support student learning and thinking across age ...

The first edition of this book was featured in The New York Times and The Boston Globe for its groundbreaking research on the positive effects of art education on student learning across the ...

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 ...