Leading a Culture of Thinking Summit
Leading a Culture of Thinking Summit
February 1-2, 2025
Two-day summit: $995
Looking, Learning and Leading in a Culture of Thinking: A Deep Dive
February 3, 2025
Two-day summit plus classroom observation and lab day: $1,395
Del Mar, California
Trevor MacKenzie
Teacher, Author, Keynote Speaker, & Inquiry Authority
Exploring the Inquiry Mindset: Cultivating Cultures of Curiosity
January 30 & 31, 2025
Atlanta, GA
Dr. Ron Ritchhart
Ron Ritchhart, Ed.D, is an award-winning teacher and researcher, a sought-after speaker, and a prolific and influential writer. Ron began his career in education as an elementary teacher in New Zealand before returning to the states where he taught art, third, and fourth grades, and middle school mathematics before commencing his career as an educational researcher. Ron spent over 25 years at Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero, where his work focused on the development of school and classroom culture as prime vehicles for developing students’ as powerful thinkers and learners. His research has always been classroom-based, learning from the best practice of teachers to better understand how they create conditions for powerful learning.
Ron’s work has informed the efforts of schools, school systems, and museums throughout the world as they seek to foster more creative, engaged, and thoughtful learners.
Though recently retired from Harvard, Ron continues his research, writing, and teaching. His best-selling books include Intellectual Character, Making Thinking Visible, Creating Cultures of Thinking, and The Power of Making Thinking Visible. His most recent book, Cultures of Thinking in Action, was published in 2022.
Mark Church
Mark Church works with educators throughout the world striving to create cultures of thinking in their classrooms and schools. Mark challenges teachers to foster thinking dispositions in students in service of deep understanding. He invites teachers to promote a discourse of thinking in their classrooms that communicates value for student sense-making. Mark encourages teachers to make their classroom environments rich with the documents of student thinking processes.
Mark is currently a consultant with Harvard Project Zero’s Making Thinking Visible and Cultures of Thinking initiatives worldwide, drawing upon his own classroom teaching experience and from the perspectives he has gained working with educators throughout North America, Australia, Asia, and Europe. Mark enjoys helping teachers examine opportunities for student thoughtfulness, use thinking routines as supports and scaffolds, interact with students in ways that demonstrate interest in and respect for students’ thinking, and send clear expectations about the importance and value of thinking in learning.
We are grateful to the Del Mar Union School District for hosting this inaugural Summit.
