I’ll be using this website to help keep people informed of upcoming events with which I am associated, provide information about my current publications, and post the slides of my presentations.    I’ll also use this site to provide some background information on both myself and my work.  Finally, I hope to be able to use this site to share information about my current work and thinking as it relates to developing, nurturing, advancing, and sustaining a culture of thinking.

For those of you with questions about my work or who have an interest in being involved, please email me at ron_ritchhart@harvard.edu

Over the past five years, I have been collecting stories and examples of how teachers have been using the thinking routines in powerful ways in their classrooms.  These were just published in a new book, Making Thinking Visible written with Mark Church and Karin Morrison.  If you have been or want to start using thinking routines and more effective questioning to create a culture of thinking in your classroom or organization, this will be a useful resource.  You can also join us on Facebook by pressing the “Like” button to your right.  This will act as a forum for people sharing ideas about how they are using the strategies and routines.

I’ve already begun work on a new publication project.  It is called, Stories of Learning. You can find out more about it here or by following the links in the Current Work section of this website If you are interested in telling a story of learning that is unfolding in your classroom, please check out the links for more information. 

To see a history of the work that has led up to and contributed to the grounded theory and repertoire or practices of Cultures of Thinking, check out this Prezi presentation:  History of Cultures of Thinking

Ron