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S510F: Qualitative Research Methods in Practice

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What does the process of conducting qualitative research look like? How can qualitative research tools and approaches be incorporated into everyday practice? How does one craft research questions, collect and analyze data, and make appropriate claims...

H801: Literacy Assessment and Intervention Practicum

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Children learn to read and write along a developmental continuum and through different instructional strategies. This course addresses the issues around literacy learning for typically developing and struggling readers as evidenced in the research and...

H128: Curiosity in Learning and Development

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*Lottery-Based Enrollment* Why are human’s the only agents in the known universe that wonder “why”, and where does this epistemic curiosity come from? Parents, educators, and policy makers agree that we want to raise a generation of learners who are...

A310R: Independent Schools: Leadership, Opportunities, Challenges

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*Lottery-Based Enrollment* Independent schools teach fewer than 10% of America’s children, yet their role can be significant, and opportunities for students, teachers and administrators who want to make an impact on the world can be profound. This module...

EDU HT107: Topics in Educational Psychology

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For those interested in learning in school settings, an understanding of educational psychology, including theories of how students learn and what motivates students to learn, is fundamental. This course offers a broad introduction to psychological theory...

A162: The Art and Science of Portraiture

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Created by Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot four decades ago, portraiture is a method of social science inquiry distinctive in its blending of art and science, aesthetics and empiricism. This seminar illuminates the origins, purposes, and features of this...

H180: Cognitive Development, Trust and Imagination

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The purpose of this course is to critically examine two somewhat conflicting views about early cognitive development, namely that young children: (i) are little scientists who construct their own ideas about the world based on their own first-hand...

A132: Educational Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in Comparative Perspective

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This project-based course supports students in designing a sustainable educational enterprise. Over the course of the semester, participants develop a viable education venture to improve educational opportunity. The course involves a series of activities...

A311A: Leading a School Through Challenge and Crisis

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*Lottery-based Enrollment* Harvard’s famous anthem Fair Harvard sees “calm rising thro’ change and thro’ storm.” But school leaders are the ones who have to take the tiller and figure out the way to steer through the storm. Recent school years provide...

S059: Quantitative Text Analysis for Education Research

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In this course students will learn quantitative text analysis techniques through applications to real-world educational data. We will cover tools for processing, clustering, classifying, and modeling the properties of texts. This course will also be an...

T560: Universal Design for Learning, Theory, Practice, and Innovation

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Educators are typically equipped with technology, media, and materials that are "one size fits all" and that have been designed primarily for a narrow and illusive group of "regular" students. This course will explore an alternative approach--universal...

S121: But is it Art? -- Technology, Ecology, and Art

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Explore the intersection of technology, ecology and art to investigate the evolving nature and purposes of art. Is AI art really art? Is the algorithm that generated the work the artist, or is it merely a tool that a human artist uses? Virtual reality art...