Lois Hetland, Ed.M., Harvard University, taught elementary and middle school children for seventeen years before coming to work part time at PZ in 1992. From 1992-1996, she was a teacher-researcher on the Teaching for Understanding project. She was Co-Facilitator for PZ's first summer institute, "The PZ Classroom" in the summer of 1996 and an editor of the resulting publication, "The PZ Classroom," with Shirley Veenema and Karen Chalfen. She was Symposium Director for MI/ND '97 (Multiple Intelligences/New Directions), and currently she is Institute Director for PZ's Summer Institute, The PZ Classroom '98: Views on Understanding. WIth Ellen Winner, P.I., she is currently Project Manager for REAP (Reviewing Education and Arts Project), a three-year project funded by the Bauman Foundation which is conducting a synthetic review of empirical studies carried out since the 1950s that test the relationship between instruction in arts and non-arts cognitive and learning outcomes. She is also a researcher on PZ's collaboration with the Northern European Consortium of International Schools. A doctoral student in Human Development and Psychology at HGSE, her research focuses on the arts as cognitive domains, their relationship to deep understanding, and their role in educational reform.

Pictures of Practice Contents Introduction The Colonial Biography Unit (7th Grade History) A Year of Seventh Grade English A Year of Eighth Grade Science The Jazz Unit Snapshot Using the CCDT to Develop Generative Topics