Our 2026 Team of Workshop Leaders
Erik Lindemann
Erik is a fourth-grade teacher at The Quaker Valley School District near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has been teaching since 1999. He builds opportunities in the classroom by remixing and applying ideas from Cultures of Thinking, Visible Thinking, Agency by Design, and Teaching for Understanding with the goal of building student capacity for optimum growth. Erik served as coach for the online learning course Creating Cultures of Thinking and as a facilitator for the Creating Cultures of Thinking online mini course. He is featured in publications including The Power of Making Thinking Visible by Dr. Ron Ritchhart and Mark Church and The Participatory Creativity Guide for Educators by Edward P. Clapp and Julie Rains. Erik has been a Study Group Leader at The Project Zero Classroom and presented in workshops including Leading a Culture of Thinking Summit, Project Zero Perspectives, Agency by Design-Pittsburgh Conference, and Project Zero Pittsburgh: Summer Institute for Teaching and Learning.
Abby Domingo
Abby has worked with children in all elementary grades as an Instructional Aide, Classroom Teacher, Assistant Principal, Principal and now as the Assistant Superintendent, Instructional Services. Abby taught in the Boston Public Schools but has spent the majority of her career in the Del Mar Union School District. She is extremely proud of the work that we are doing in DMUSD to create an extraordinary school experience and the shifts that we are making in education. This includes creating a culture of thinking. Abby has been fortunate to participate in 10 years of professional learning with Ron Ritchhart as well as attend the Project Zero Summer Institute and participate in their online classes. Abby works hard to apply a culture of thinking principles to her own work as an educator for adult and student learning each and every day.
Kristin Stanton
I am a Coordinator of Curriculum and Instruction for the Del Mar Union School District. I have also previously been a teacher, TOSA, and Principal in Del Mar. My current projects as Coordinator include supporting the modernization of school environments, as well as the implementation of Co-teaching and the Portrait of a Learner district-wide.
Carole Geneix
Carole Geneix-Gutnikoff is Director of Teaching and Learning at Washington International School (WIS), a pre-school to 12th grade International Baccalaureate independent school in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, she taught middle school, high school, and college students in various settings. She fell in love with Project Zero ideas with her first “See, Think, Wonder” thinking routine and has not stopped practicing Project Zero ideas ever since. She presented Project Zero-inspired workshops at national and international conferences, as well as DC museums. At WIS, she uses Project Zero ideas to organize professional learning groups, coordinate the WIS curriculum using the Teaching for Understanding framework, facilitate meaningful discussions about teaching and learning, and develop a culture of feedback and renewal.
Dolph Hardigree
Dolph Hardigree (he/him) has been fascinated and inspired by the power of thinking since his first experience as a participant at the Project Zero Classroom (PZC) institute in Cambridge. Since then, he has continued to be changed and enriched by PZ adventures. As a veteran public educator, Dolph spent the first 12 years of his teaching career in the elementary classroom and the last 18 thinking and learning with high schoolers in the areas of Biology, Anatomy, & Environmental Science, and Theory of Knowledge. When thinking became the visible heartbeat of his classroom, a vibrant new world emerged, and he continues to be amazed by it! Dolph teaches and resides in LaGrange, Georgia, where he was recently privileged to serve as the Troup County School System Teacher of the Year.
Chelsea Moore
A San Diego native and proud principal of the Pacific Sky School (where the Summit will be held) in the Del Mar Union School District, I believe deeply in creating a culture of thinking that supports meaningful learning for all—children and adults alike.
Georgina Ardalan
Georgina Ardalan is an early childhood educator in DC Public Schools. She draws on her first career in architecture to create a nurturing, collaborative environment that encourages a culture of thinking—where both teachers and children question, reflect, and listen. Georgina serves as a Study Group Leader at the Project Zero Classroom and facilitates Harvard Graduate School of Education’s online course Let’s Play. She has presented at conferences including the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), Project Zero Perspectives, the National Network of Schools in Partnership, and Children Are Citizens. She is also a member of the leadership committee for the Washington International School Summer Institute for Teachers (WISSIT). Georgina lives on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, with her husband, Alex; their 15-year-old son, Henry; and three cats—Churro, Rio, and Paulo. When she’s not playing pickleball, she can be found on the soccer field cheering Henry on.
Kristen Kullberg
Kristen Kullberg is the Design and Making Initiatives Coordinator for grades 6-12 at Washington International School. Previously, she taught middle school language arts and was the arts integration instructional coach at Sacred Heart School in DC. Kristen has excitedly explored Project Zero practices as an active member of DC-Project Zero and through her involvement in projects such as JusticexDesign, Making Across the Curriculum, Children Are Citizens, and the DC-Area Playful Schools Network. She has presented at various PZ Perspectives conferences, where she often facilitates professional learning groups and shares her own classroom practices centered on student thinking and understanding. She is also a member of the WISIT leadership team.
Dr. Gerald D. Smith Jr
Gerald D. Smith Jr. is an Education Specialist with the Smithsonian Institution and former principal at St. Thomas More Catholic Academy. A former science and math educator for grades 4-12, Gerald has worked at various schools focused on developing differentiated instruction through phenomenon- and project-based learning. While teaching at Bishop McNamara High School, Gerald became familiar with Project Zero ideas and worked alongside colleagues to integrate teaching for understanding practices and visible thinking into the school's culture. As a principal, Gerald is working to promote agency in both educators and students in order to develop strong citizens willing and ready to make the world more just and humane. He has participated in the Making Across the Curriculum, JusticexDesign, and the DC-Area Playful Schools Network initiatives.
Kathy Zabinski
Kathy is a passionate, enthusiastic and curious educator who is dedicated to empowering all members of learning communities to thrive. The mindset that for classrooms to be cultures of thinking for students, schools must be cultures of thinking for teachers has been a defining principle in her work as a professional educator, leader, instructional coach and consultant for the past 30 years. Kathy has worked in international schools around the world as well as her home community in Colorado. No matter where she is, it is a truth that everyone can relate to the feeling of having too much to do and not having enough time to do it. With colleagues, she has explored the role of time in deep learning and quality of life. She is eager to share her learning and to collaborate with participants to envision strategies they can use to maximize the cultural forces of time, interaction and opportunities for deep learning.