How do we do it?

Practices That Promote Playful Learning

Empower learners to lead their own learning

Tipping the balance of responsibility for learning towards the learner and saying yes to students' ideas!

Build a culture of collaborative learning

Setting up conditions for collaborative learning to give students opportunities to learn with and from each other.

Promote experimentation and risk taking

Providing space for learners to to experiment with materials and ideas, take risks, and learn from failure as an important part of the learning process.

Reading together in Kindergarten at ISB, Denmark

Encourage imaginative thinking

Engaging with imagination to explore, create, invent, generate new ideas, and take different perspectives.

Children playing shadow theater in Primary School, Billund, Denmark

Welcome all emotions generated through play

Learning through play can involve a range of emotions - from satisfaction and ownership to frustration and anger. Welcome and value all of them!

Read about the 5 practices in our What if-booklet

What if

Have a look at some of our tools:

Indicators of Playful Learning

Girl doing a handstand in Primary School, ISB, Denmark

How do we do it?

Practices That Promote Playful Learning

Empower learners to lead their own learning

Build a culture of collaborative learning

Promote experimentation and risk taking

Encourage imaginative thinking

Welcome all emotions generated through play

Read about the 5 practices in our What if-booklet

Have a look at some of our tools:

Indicators of Playful Learning

Planning Playful Learning Environments

Playful Classroom Management

S.T.A.C.K. Thinking Routine

And some Project Zero-tools we love

See, Think, Wonder

Connect, Extend, Challenge

I used to think, but now I think

Ladder of feedback