Shari Tishman

Shari Tishman is Senior Research Associate and former Director of Project Zero and a Lecturer on Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is interested in understanding and designing environments and instructional approaches that help people learn how to think. Her research focuses on the development of thinking and understanding, learning in and through the arts, and learning in museums.

Recent Major Research Projects:

-The Qualities of Quality: Excellence in Arts Education and How to Achieve It. (with co-principal
investigators Steve Seidel, Lois Hetland and Ellen Winner).
-Commissioned by the Wallace Foundation.
-Learning in and from Museum Study Centers. A collaborative project with the Harvard University Art Museums. Funded by the Harvard University Art Museums.
-Artful Thinking. In collaboration with the Traverse City, Michigan Area Public Schools (TCAPS). Funded by TCAPS and the US Department of Education.
-Innovating With Intelligence (Visible Thinking) (with co-principal investigators David Perkins and Ron Ritchhart) Funded by The Peder Sager Wallenberg Charitable Trust/Carpe Vitam.
-Investigating and Strengthening the Educational impact of the Museum of Modern Art's Visual Thinking Curriculum. Funded by the Museum of Modern Art.
-Art Works for Schools (with co-principal investigator Tina Grotzer). Funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
-Patterns of Thinking: The Analysis, Assessment, and Educational Implications of Thinking Dispositions (with co- principal investigator David Perkins). Funded by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

LECTURE AND WORKSHOP

Slow looking and big understandings

Time is the most precious educational resource we have. So to spend it lavishly by asking students to slow down and look closely at just one thing requires strong justification. This session explores the cognitive power of slow looking. Drawing on examples from several Project Zero frameworks, it shows how the practice of slow looking can help learners of any age develop complex understandings of their worlds.