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Ron Ritchhart is a research associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research focuses on understanding, supporting, and helping to develop the kinds of thoughtful learning environments that support powerful learning for both students and teachers. This guiding interest has lead him into research on intellectual character, mindfulness, thinking dispositions, cultures of thinking, teaching for understanding, creativity in teaching, and the development of communities of practice. Ron's research is classroom/school based and a strong theme of learning from best practice runs throughout his work. On many of the projects on which Ron has worked, he has produced videos of best practices related to teaching for understanding, creative and innovative teaching, and the use of thinking routines. Currently, Ron is principal investigator for the Cultures of Thinking Project with David Perkins. Previously, Ron was principal investigator for the Creative Classroom Project and co-principal investigator, with David Perkins and Shari Tishman, for the Innovating with Intelligence Project. Other research projects include the Patterns of Thinking project with David Perkins and Shari Tishman and the Teaching for Understanding Project with David Perkins, Howard Gardner, Stone Wiske, and Vito Perrone. In addition to his research work, Ron is actively engaged with professional development around teaching for understanding and the development of cultures of thinking through ATLAS and the International Schools Consortium. Both of these projects seek to provide ongoing development and support for teachers as they use the ideas of teaching for understanding and cultures of thinking to enhance their teaching. Prior to joining the Project Zero research group, Ritchhart taught for fourteen years in Colorado, Indiana, and New Zealand. He has taught middle school mathematics, elementary school, and served as a mathematics coordinator. In 1993 he received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Secondary Mathematics Teaching. Ritchhart also helped initiate the Math Project at the Public Education Business Coalition in Denver and taught math and science methods in the Initial Teacher Certification Program at the University of Denver. Ron's interest in the teaching of mathematics for understanding has lead him to author three books on the subject. Ron earned his Ed.D. degree (2000) in human development and psychology from Harvard University. Ron's dissertation research on how teachers create thoughtful learning environments that support the development of students' intellectual character are reported in his new book: Intellectual Character: What it is, Why it matters, How to get it. Prior to attending Harvard, he earned an M.A. degree (1990) in curriculum and instruction from the University of Colorado at Denver, and a B.S. degree in education from Indiana University. Selected Publications Perkins, D.N., & Ritchhart, R. (2004). When is good thinking? In D.Y. Dai & R.J. Sternberg (Eds.), Motivation, emotion, and cognition: Integrative perspectives on intellectual functioning and development. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Perkins, D.N., Tishman, S., Ritchhart, R., Donis, K., & Andrade, A. (2000). Intelligence in the wild: A dispositional view of intellectual traits. Educational Psychology Review, 12 (3), 269-293. Ritchhart, R. (1994). Making numbers make sense: A sourcebook for developing numeracy. Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley. Ritchhart, R. (1994). Teaching with the heart. In K. Jennings (Ed.), One teacher in ten. Boston: Alyson Publications. Ritchhart, R. (1994). The note. Teacher Magazine, February. Ritchhart, R. (1997). In praise of messiness, betting against the odds, and reinventing the wheel as avenues for the development of understanding. In R. Ritchhart (Ed.), Through Mathematical Eyes: Exploring Functional Relationships in Math and Science. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Ritchhart, R. (1997). Learning to see the world through mathematical eyes. In R. Ritchhart (Ed.), Through Mathematical Eyes: Exploring Functional Relationships in Math and Science. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Ritchhart, R. (Ed.) (1997). Through mathematical eyes: Exploring functional relationships in math and science. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Ritchhart, R. (1998). Rethinking professional development: Supporting reform in middle grades mathematics through the cultivation of teaching dispositions. In L. Leutzinger (Ed.), Mathematics in the middle (pp. 49-54). Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Ritchhart, R. (1999). Generative topics: Building a curriculum around big ideas. Teaching Children Mathematics, 5 (8), 462-468. Ritchhart, R. (1999). Pythagoras's bow tie. White Plains, NY: Cuisenaire. Ritchhart, R. (1999). Uncovering the dimensions of disciplinary understanding in mathematics (and other subject areas). In L. Hetland & S. Veenema (Eds.), The Project Zero Classroom: Views on Understanding (pp. 35-45). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Project Zero. Ritchhart, R. (2001). From IQ to IC: A dispositional view of intelligence. Roeper Review 23 (3), 143-150. Ritchhart, R. (2002). Intellectual character: What it is, why it matters, how to get it. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Ritchhart, R., & Blythe, T. (1999). Creativity in the classroom: An exploration. Burbank, CA: Disney Learning Partnership. Ritchhart, R., & Blythe, T. (2001). The power of the creative classroom. Burbank, CA: Disney Learning Partnership. Ritchhart, R., & Perkins, D.N. (2000). Life in the Mindful Classroom: Nurturing the Disposition of Mindfulness. Journal of Social Issues 56 (1), 27-47. Ritchhart, R., & Perkins, D.N. (2005). Learning to think: The challenges of teaching thinking. In K. Holyoak & R.G. Morrison (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of thinking and reasoning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ritchhart, R., & Wiske, M. S. (with Hetland, L., & Buchovecky, E). (1998). How does teaching for understanding look in practice? In M. S. Wiske (Ed.), Teaching for understanding (pp. 122-158). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Ritchhart, R., Moran, S., Blythe, T., & Reese, J. (2002). Teaching in the creative classroom. Burbank, CA: Disney Learning Partnership. |
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