Making Learning Visible
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Learning Groups
Classroom Learning Groups
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Getting Started with Learning Groups
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Creating a Community of Learners in your Classroom
Looking at Learning in Groups: Visual Essay and Classroom Discussion Guidelines
Group Learning Features in Practice
Considerations when Forming a Learning Group
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The Individual in the Group: The Entrypoints Chart, Student Interviews, and Student Surveys
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Teacher Examples
Student Study Group Planner
Creating A Culture of Dialogue
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Changing our Skin: Creating Collective Knowledge
Helping Students Give and Receive Feedback
The Ladder of Feedback: A routine for giving feedback about an idea or artifact
MLV for Secondary Schools
Teacher Learning Groups
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Adult Learning Groups
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Sharing Documentation with Colleagues
Making Learning Visible Cycle of Inquiry
Activities for Exploring Group Learning and Documentation
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“Throwing Your Money Away”
"What Does the Internet Look Like?”
“Going Public: Transforming the Bulletin Board”
Protocols for looking at documentation
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Looking at Documentation: Protocols for reviewing and critiquing documentation
See-Think-Wonder: A routine for exploring and noticing
Ladder of Feedback (see Supporting Learning in Groups in the Classroom)
Documenting Learning
Getting Started with Documentation
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Getting Started with Documentation in Your Classroom
Documentation and Display: What’s the Difference?
Documentation: When Does it Make Learning Visible?
MYST (Me-You-Space-Time: A Reflecting Routine)
Documentation Features in Practice
Photographs as Documentation: Some Guidelines
The Documentation Process
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Sharing Documentation with Colleagues
Using Video: From Capturing to Downloading to Editing to Sharing
Documentation: Photo and Video
Revisiting Learning Moments
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Making Students' Words Visible: Speech Bubbles
Small books
Reflecting on post-its, photographs and video
Engaging Families
Informing Families about Making Learning Visible (or MLV: Why Bother?)
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Sample Letter Home
“Why Don’t You Tell the Other Kids?”
An Elementary School Parent’s Reflections
“Exploring Group Learning: An Activity and a Thought Problem”
Involving Families in the Learning Process
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Refrigerator Reminders: 5 ways to make learning visible at home
Inviting family members in before the end of a unit/Documenting at home and in the classroom
Family Study Groups
Communicating with Families about Learning
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Making Learning Visible Family Survey
Sharing Images of Learning
Another Way To Think About Bulletin Boards
MLV Beyond the Classroom
Sharing Stories of Learning
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Bulletin boards that make learning visible
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More Bulletin Board Examples
Engaging City Hall: Children as Citizens
“Zooms”
Schoolwide Exhibitions of Teaching and Learning
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Creating an Exhibition of Teaching and Learning
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More Exhibitions of Teaching and Learning
Components of Making Learning Visible
Graphic Design Principles: Considerations for making visual displays
Making Learning Visible in the Community
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DVD
Places to Play in Providence
Menu: “A Taste of MLV”
FOL/PZC
Blog MLV in Practice
Getting Started with Documentation in Your Classroom