Welcome Mara!
Harvard‘s and Project Zero’s Mara Krechevsky, a leading expert on international education and the theory of play, has joined CPI’s Advisory Board.
Mara Krechevsky is a senior researcher at Project Zero.
Her current projects include Pedagogy of Play, a collaboration with the Lego Foundation and the International School of Billund, Denmark, to develop a pedagogy of play from preschool to middle school.
Project Zero’s mission is to understand and nurture human potential –such as learning, thinking, ethics, intelligence and creativity –in all human beings. Project Zero is a research center founded in 1967. It explores topics in education such as deep thinking, understanding, intelligence, creativity, and ethics.
Creando Comunidades de Indagacion is a collaboration between Project Zero and Innova Schools Network to develop a culture of inquiry-driven teaching and learning.
Mara co-authored the acclaimed book Visible Learners: Promoting Reggio-Inspired Approaches in All Schools. Visible classrooms are committed to five key principles: that learning is purposeful, social, emotional, empowering, and representational.
Visible Learners highlights learning through interpreting objects and artifacts, group learning, and documentation to make students’ learning evident to teachers
Currently, Mara is the Project Director of 21st Century Excellence, a Project Zero collaboration with the Centro Educacional de Campos, a Brazilian school network. It’s mission is to create a framework for excellence in K-12 teaching and learning. It is a collaboration with the Columbus, OH, Museum of Art.
Mara is a prolific researcher, and has been conducting educational research for over 30 years. She is the author or co-author of numerous books and articles. The three-volume series, Project Zero Frameworks for Early Childhood Education, translated into six languages.
CPI attended the LEGO Foundation’s Playful Schools Conference in March. For more information, visit our Education page.
Mara Krechevsky’s Twitter Handle here.