Houston Learning Network

The Houston Learning Network grew out of the H2H Initiative, which was created in 2012 by the Harvard University Club of Houston to meaningfully improve the quality of education in Houston-area schools while fostering a close relationship between Harvard and the city of Houston. The H2H Initiative was spun off from the Harvard University Club of Houston as a separate entity in 2017 and continues its work as a key activity of the HLN.
Since 2012, the HLN has enabled more than 100 teachers to travel to Harvard to participate in professional development programs that have transformed their teaching. Teachers have learned cutting-edge educational best practices and brought them back to Houston in order to benefit students of all ages, with a particular focus on students in HISD and other public school districts. Most teachers have participated in programs at Project Zero, an institute at the Harvard Graduate School of Education founded in 1967 that has led investigations into arts and education, the nature of intelligence, understanding, thinking, creativity, cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural thinking and ethics.