Educating for Today and Tomorrow: Connecting Project Zero Research with Global Issues

This conference focuses on current Project Zero approaches to creating learning environments and instructional materials that help learners develop the thinking skills, habits of mind, and global understandings they need in the world of today and tomorrow. The two-and-a-half day conference includes keynote addresses by leading Project Zero researchers, interactive sessions led by Project Zero researchers and other educators working with Project Zero ideas and practices in a variety of educational settings and on-site sessions led by staff of the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Institution featuring learning in museums and learning through art. These interactive sessions will explore the application of frameworks and tools related to Teaching for Understanding, Visible Thinking, Artful Thinking, Arts Integration, Educating for the 21st Century, and Multiple Intelligences.