Every summer for the past 11 years, HGSE[base ']s Project Zero and Programs in Professional Education have offered the Project Zero Classroom, a one-week, intensive summer institute designed to help pre-K[^]12 educators create classrooms, instructional materials, and out-of-school learning environments that address learning dilemmas. The PZC tackles challenging issues about the kind of teaching and learning that should be done in classrooms all around the world, but is not being done, in part because of the pressure for certain performances on certain kinds of standardized tests, in part because teachers teach what they were taught and in the ways that they were taught 10 or 50 years ago. This year the Institute gave educators from 37 states and 42 countries an opportunity to be exposed to cutting edge ideas, and interact in a variety of settings with the faculty of practitioners and researchers who are developing these ideas and putting them into practice.

In order to provide these lessons and aid educators, the PZC is organized around plenary sessions, study groups, and mini-courses that help teachers to encourage students[base '] efforts to understand content, recognize and develop student[base ']s multiple intellectual strengths, help students learn to think critically and creatively, and assess student work in ways that promotes further learning.
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