Professor Anat Zohar is an associate professor at the School of Education of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 2006-2009 she served as the Chairperson of the Pedagogical Secretariat at the Ministry of Education. In this capacity she led a pedagogic reform in Israeli schools whose main goal was the integration of education for thinking and the understanding of the various school subjects. Her areas of academic expertise include science education, learning and instruction, the development of students’ thinking, metacognition, teachers’ professional development in the context of teaching thinking, gender and teaching sciences, gender and education for the gifted, bridging the gap between educational policy and changes in learning and instruction, and means for implementing educational projects to develop thinking with a system-wide vision.