Overview:  

The year 2020 showed the resilience of educators committed to student learning under the most unsettling circumstances. It also foregrounded the need to understand our students in context, appreciating their full potential, and responding to pernicious inequities permeating our societies. The future of education requires that we rethink the very purposes and forms of our practices. As we look into the future we may ask: What dispositions might be worth nurturing to empower our youth to live fulfilling lives and construct more inclusive and equitable societies? What concrete practical tools might help us move in the right direction?

This collection begins to respond to the challenge. It was created by Veronica Boix Mansilla at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education,  and  Senior Visiting Fellow at the Smithsonian Center for Digital Access. The collection was used at the Project Zero Spark Conferences - June 2021. and May 2022

Goals: Collection users will:

• Learn about our Re-Imagining Migration Dispositions framework outlining habits of mind and dispositions that matter in a world on the move.
• Experience our newly developed Socio-Emotional-Civic-Thinking Routines considering their possible applications in the classroom, and
• Connect with the Smithsonian Learning Lab interactive platform for digital learning as a platform to discover, create, and share quality teaching and learning designs.

Content and pedagogy

By combining visual resources from the Outwin National Portrait Gallery exhibition with opportunities to reflect using new socio-emotional and civic thinking routines, the collection invites us to explore how we connect with others and learn to recognize human dignity in people whose lives may differ from our own.

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