Making Learning Visible
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    • MLV Books
    • Books and Articles List >
      • Children Are Citizens
      • Downloadable Articles
    • By Teachers, For Teachers
    • Related Websites
    • Digital Resources
  • Learning Groups
    • Classroom Learning Groups >
      • Getting Started with Learning Groups >
        • 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 >
        • The Individual in the Group: The Entrypoints Chart, Student Interviews, and Student Surveys >
          • Teacher Examples
        • Student Study Group Planner
      • Creating A Culture of Dialogue >
        • 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 >
      • Adult Learning Groups >
        • Sharing Documentation with Colleagues
        • Making Learning Visible Cycle of Inquiry
      • Activities for Exploring Group Learning and Documentation >
        • “Throwing Your Money Away”
        • "What Does the Internet Look Like?”
        • “Going Public: Transforming the Bulletin Board”
      • Protocols for looking at documentation >
        • 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 >
      • 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 >
      • Sharing Documentation with Colleagues
      • Using Video: From Capturing to Downloading to Editing to Sharing
      • Documentation: Photo and Video
    • Revisiting Learning Moments >
      • 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?) >
      • 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 >
      • 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 >
      • Making Learning Visible Family Survey
      • Sharing Images of Learning
      • Another Way To Think About Bulletin Boards
  • MLV Beyond the Classroom
    • Sharing Stories of Learning >
      • Bulletin boards that make learning visible >
        • More Bulletin Board Examples
      • Engaging City Hall: Children as Citizens
      • “Zooms”
    • Schoolwide Exhibitions of Teaching and Learning >
      • Creating an Exhibition of Teaching and Learning >
        • 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 >
      • DVD
      • Places to Play in Providence
      • Menu: “A Taste of MLV”
  • FOL/PZC
    • Blog MLV in Practice

Related Websites

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Making Learning Visible Home Website
Making Learning Visible (MLV). MLV draws attention to the power of the group as a learning environment and documentation as a way to see and shape how and what children are learning. MLV is based on collaborative research conducted by Project Zero researchers with teachers from the Municipal Preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy, and preschool through high school teachers and teacher educators in Massachusetts.

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Project Zero Home Website
Project Zero is an educational research group at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. Project Zero's mission is to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, as well as humanistic and scientific disciplines, at the individual and institutional levels.

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Visible Thinking Home Website
Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters. An extensive and adaptable collection of practices, Visible Thinking has a double goal: on the one hand, to cultivate students' thinking skills and dispositions, and, on the other, to deepen content learning. By thinking dispositions, we mean curiosity, concern for truth and understanding, a creative mindset, not just being skilled but also alert to thinking and learning opportunities and eager to take them


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Reggio Children Home Page
Reggio Children's aims and purposes are inspired by the philosophy and values of the educational project developed and practiced in the Municipal Infant-toddler Centers and Preschools of Reggio Emilia, in order to protect and communicate the wealth of knowledge developed within this experience.
The aims of Reggio Children include: fyfuy to communicate a forceful idea of childhood and of children's rights, potentials, and resources, which are often unrecognized or neglected;

to promote studies, research, and experimentation in education, with particular emphasis on children's active, constructive, and creative learning processes;

to advance the professionalism and culture of teachers, promoting a greater awareness of the value of collegial work and of meaningful relationships with the children and their families;
to highlight the value of research, observation, interpretation, and documentation of children's knowledge-building and thinking processes;

to organize guided visits to educational programs, cultural initiatives, exhibitions, seminars, conferences, professional development courses on the issues of education and the culture of childhood.



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The North American Reggio Emilia Alliance (NAREA) home website.
NAREA is a network of educators, parents, and advocates seeking to elevate both the quality of life and the quality of schools and centers for young children.

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