Documentation Examples

Documentation Exhibition

This "Documentation Exhibition" contains fifteen examples of documentation of student and teacher learning contributed by educators involved in the Making Learning Visible Project, a Project Zero/District-Charter Collaboration. MLV educators from preschool through high school spent several months engaged in supporting and making individual and group learning visible in their classrooms and schools. As with the other documentation examples on this site, we hope the pieces shared here will stimulate conversations and questions about what makes for powerful teaching and learning at all levels, and suggest new ideas about using documentation to support and extend learning in a variety of settings.

Note: there are no details beyond a photograph and general description for some of the pieces that appeared in the exhibition and they are marked accordingly. Additionally, we hope to eventually add a comments feature so that viewers can share their perspectives, related experiences and questions the work raises. For many of the teachers whose work is featured here, their inquiries are ongoing. So seeing viewers' responses would be of great value. We hope you will visit this section of the site again soon?and often.

Projects

Beginning the Journey: Learning through teacher and student documentation Wickliffe Progressive Community School, Columbus, OH	Community and Measurement: Ms. Steinberg's 3rd graders find harmony in the classroom through math Conservatory Lab Charter School, Brighton, MA	Creating a Culture of Critique Edward Devotion School, Brookline, MA
Expect the Unexpected Lee Academy, Boston, MA	Get it From the Source: Students Reflect on Group Learning Fenway High School, Boston, MA	How Does Your Garden Grow? Questions our students have us asking Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School
I Want to Help You But... Students and Teachers Uncover the Workers' Dilemma During the Sit-In Movement Ezra H. Baker and John Simpkins Schools, Dennis-Yarmouth, MA	Literature Study Benjamin Banneker Charter School, Cambridge, MA (* full details not yet available)	Making Learning Visible Makes Learning Possible Academy of the Pacific Rim, Hyde Park, MA
Making Student-Led Discussion Visible Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School, Devens, MA	Moving Towards Our Charter's Mission Through Responsive Reflection Marstons Mills East Horace Mann Charter Public School, Marstons Mills, MA	Once is not enough: What effects can making thinking visible have on student learning? Benjamin Banneker Charter School, Cambridge, MA
Planetary Models Project Prospect Hill Academy, Cambridge, MA (* full details not yet available)	The Small Group Supports the Individual's Learning Heath School, Brookline, MA (* full details not yet available)	Up, Up, Up... Can Documentation Be Building Blocks for New Learning? Brookline Early Education Program