Slow looking is a way of building knowledge. It involves purposefully looking beyond a first glance, and it happens anywhere people pause to observe the world closely--in classrooms and museums, in laboratories and on neighborhood walks. The practice of slow looking brings us into the present moment, nurtures curiosity, connects us to something larger than ourselves, shifts perspectives, and expands understanding. Participants will engage in a range of slow looking strategies using thinking routines from Harvard Project Zero and some “Awe Practices” drawn from the University of California at Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. This session stems from a research partnership between the National Gallery of Art and Dacher Keltner, author of Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life (Penguin 2023) and Professor of Psychology at Berkeley. Learn how awe fosters mental and physical resilience, how awe makes us better humans, and discuss techniques for cultivating awe mindsets in our teaching contexts.