Ron Ritchhart

Ron Ritchhart is an educator, researcher, author, and speaker whose work focuses on developing cultures of thinking that promote deep learning and intellectual character in schools. He is a Senior Research Associate at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he has worked since 1994 on issues such as teaching for understanding, thinking dispositions, creativity in teaching, and classroom and school culture. Ritchhart holds an Ed.D. in human development and psychology from Harvard University, an M.A. in curriculum and instruction from the University of Colorado at Denver, and a B.S. in education from Indiana University. A former classroom teacher for fourteen years in New Zealand, Colorado, and Indiana, he received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Secondary Mathematics Teaching in 1993 and a Spencer Dissertation Fellowship in 1999–2000.

Ritchhart is the author of Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools, Cultures of Thinking in Action: 10 Mindsets to Transform Our Teaching and Students’ Learning, Intellectual Character: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Get It, and several mathematics education books including Pythagoras’s Bow Tie and Through Mathematical Eyes. He is also coauthor of Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners and **The