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Once is not enough: What effects can making thinking visible have on student learning?

School: Benjamin Banneker Charter School, Cambridge, MA

5. New Possibilities for Bulletin Boards

Can you imagine bulletin boards designed to:


? Communicate and educate the whole community about the ongoing learning in their classrooms?

? Show developing connections among ideas and among people?

? Tell and picture the ongoing stories of groups learning together?

? Invite the viewers to respond to ideas and interpretations?

Can you imagine bulletin boards as:


? Ongoing collaborations between students and teachers?

? Meeting places for curiosity and social interactions?

? Places to foreground what?s important about learning?