Recently, Tina Grotzer and Lydia Cao presented at the Project Zero Classroom (PZC) Summer Institute. The PZC draws educators from all over the world to Cambridge to spend a week learning about emerging ideas to support the best learning and performance. This year, Grotzer gave a plenary session on educating for climate change. She stressed the importance of stressing our collectivity on the planet and incorporating voices that often get left out of the conversation. To learn more, you can access a PDF of the PPT presentation and read this related article: Thinking Like an Earthling: Children’s Reasoning About Individual and Collective Action Related to Environmental Sustainability.
Additionally, Grotzer and Cao presented a new way of conceptualizing the teaching of thinking and what it means to be a Next Level Learner. The session PPT which offers an overview can be found here. They also introduced two self-guided modules for K-16 educators that go in depth on “Avoiding Amygdala Hijack” (part of the course on “Integrating Emotion, Cognition, and Body Knowledge”) and “Allocating for Attentional Blink” (part of the “Attending to Attention” course). We hope that educators will find these modules to be useful in their work with all ages.