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Howard Gardner on His Life and Scholarly Work
In the summer of 2017, Howard Gardner had a series of conversations with reporters from the Harvard Gazette, Harvard University’s official news website. The topics of these discussions ranged from Gardner’s early life and family to his lifelong scholarly work, including The Good …
Three Founders of The Good Work Project Named Among Most Influential Psychologists
Howard Gardner, Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, and William Damon, the three founders of the Good Work Project, have been recognized among the fifty most influential living psychologists in an online ranking by TheBestSchools.org. Howard Gardner comments below on this news. Generally speaking, I pay …
Good Work Referenced in Book on Teaching for Student Success
The Good Project’s research on the meaning of “Good Work” has been featured in a newly-published book for teachers. 10 Mindframes for Visible Learning: Teaching for Success, by John Hattie and Klaus Zierer, provides educators with an overview of behaviors and mindsets …
Making Good Decisions
What does it mean to do “good” or make a “good decision”? How can we equip adolescents with the strategies to make good choices? The Good Project defines “good” as excellence, engagement, and ethics. While the baseline of what is “excellent” is …
International Positive Education Network Shares The Good Project’s Module
The International Positive Education Network (IPEN) has shared a blog post about our new online learning module for adolescents. IPEN is an organization that aims to promote positive education that includes both academics and character/well-being through collaboration and changes in practice and policy. …
December 2017 Newsletter Released
Our December 2017 newsletter is now available. In this month’s issue, we share the final version of our online module for teens about ethical dilemmas and value-based decisions. We also circulate an article recently published by our colleague Wiljan Hendrikx about the …
Online Module: Ethical Dilemmas and Value-Based Decisions
Over the past six months, in partnership with design studio FableVision, The Good Project has been developing a new online learning module for teens adapted from the GoodWork Toolkit. We are thrilled to announce that a final version of the interactive unit is now …
The Manila Times Features The Good Project
A columnist in The Manila Times, the oldest English-language newspaper in the Philippines, has featured the work of The Good Project in a November 2017 piece. Picking up on the major themes of the 2001 book Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet, …
Test Our New Online Module for Students
The Good Project is excited to announce the launch of a completely new and online module for students based on our GoodWork Toolkit. CLICK HERE to access the prototype! We created this experience with a teenage audience in mind, and we hope that …
Raising Children Who Care About the Greater Good
In an era in which stakes are high for success and so much seems to be going awry in public life, how can we raise kids who care about the common good? This is the question posed in a blog in The Washington …
Teens and Technology: Few Simple Answers
Have smartphones destroyed a generation? Jean Twenge of San Diego State University asked this question in a widely-discussed article in the September 2017 edition of The Atlantic. She concludes that teens are on the verge of a mental health crisis due to the constant presence …
Good Work: A View from Across the Pond
RSA Comment, a blog of the UK’s Royal Society of Arts, has published a piece by The Good Project’s Danny Mucinskas and Howard Gardner. Mucinskas and Gardner’s commentary, titled “Good Work: A View from Across the Pond,” is a response to the …
