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Charlotte Hawkins

Newsletter #31: Listen Up!

December 8, 2025
The Micro Lab Protocol was developed by the New South Wales Educational Authority in partnership with Project Zero. The purpose of this routine is to give every student a participatory voice, to practice speaking and active listening.
Charlotte Hawkins

Newsletter #30: Creating Cognitive Conflict

November 24, 2025
When the walls of our classroom celebrate the messy and complex nature of learning through the display of reflections, analysis, and ongoing learning rather than simple products, we reinforce the message that this is how we view learning, that the process is as important to celebrate as the product, perhaps even more so.
Charlotte Hawkins

Newsletter #29: Circle of Viewpoints

October 28, 2025
Circle of Viewpoints challenges students to look for possible perspectives, and then act, dance, or respond as that person.
Charlotte Hawkins

Newsletter #28: The Liminal Space

October 6, 2025
Tug of War is a thinking routine to get students to explore the complexity of “fairness” in a dilemma or a complex situation. The idea behind Tug of War is to give children a metaphor, like a children’s playground game, to demonstrate the “pulls” of various factors in a problem.
Charlotte Hawkins

Newsletter #27: Beginning, Middle, End

September 15, 2025
Beginning, Middle, End is a thinking routine developed by researchers at Project Zero to do just that, get students to look at an image or object, and tell a story.
Charlotte Hawkins

Newsletter #26: Give One, Get One

September 10, 2025
Give One, Get One, a thinking routine from Project Zero, has a format for engaging all students in conversational exchange, including the socially anxious.
Charlotte Hawkins

Newsletter #25: The Explanation Game

August 25, 2025

I watched with hilarity as two teenagers accepted a challenge: call grandma on an old rotary phone. It was amusing to me because I know how to use a rotary phone. And a typewriter. And a compass. My dad taught me that one. After the buzzer went off, they hung their heads in frustration.

Charlotte Hawkins

Newsletter #24: Belonging is My Co-Teacher

May 13, 2025
As we begin a new school year and rededicate ourselves to the task of educating children and making their thinking visible, remember that students learn best when they are “valued, respected, and known by adults” (Ron Ritchhart). If we want creative risk-takers in our classrooms, we need to ensure they feel supported and safe.
Charlotte Hawkins

Newsletter #23: Me on the Map

May 5, 2025
Exploring your relationship with a place and mapping out an area require visible thinking. Project Zero (PZ), a Harvard Graduate School of Education initiative, has a thinking activity to construct a map and understand complex structures — like spatial relationships.
Charlotte Hawkins

Newsletter #22: Thinking Across Generations

April 29, 2025
Learning From Other Generations is an activity to explore what we can learn from people who belong to different generations. Adapted from Out of Eden Learns (OOEL) a Harvard curriculum, this routine can bring generations together.
Charlotte Hawkins

 

 
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