Looking Together at Student Work: A Companion Guide to Assessing Student Learning

This expanded second edition provides teachers and administrators with strategies and resources for working together to examine and discuss student work, such as essays, projects, art work, math problems, and more. Providing real examples of how educators can do this, the authors describe three structured conversations or protocols: the Collaborative Assessment Conference, the Tuning Protocol, and the Consultancy. The book also offers case studies from schools that developed their own protocols. ISBN: 978-0807748350

Teaching as Inquiry: Asking Hard Questions to Improve Practice and Student Achievement

This book offers an engaging and effective approach to improving teacher and student learning. Based on the experiences of leading educational organizations, the authors provide invaluable, research-based guidelines for incorporating inquiry into teachers instructional practices and student work an ongoing responsibility of schools. This volume includes: specific considerations for determining who should be involved, what work should be under review, how it should be reviewed, and how such inquiry should be supported by the school; detailed case studies from urban elementary and secondary schools that illustrate how teachers and administrators have initiated and sustained processes of inquiry that contributed to changes in instruction, improved student outcomes, and their own professional learning; benchmarks for teachers and administrators to gauge their progress in initiating and deepening inquiry in their own schools. ISBN: 978-0807744574

Project Spectrum: Project Zero Frameworks for Early Childhood Education, Volume 2

This curriculum resource will enable teachers in the early primary years to apply multiple intelligences theory in their own classrooms. It provides enriching activities in a wide variety of disciplines, including mechanics and construction, movement, and music. ISBN: 978-0807737675

Visible Learners: Promoting Reggio-Inspired Approaches in All Schools

Inspired by the innovative educational philosophy that originated in Reggio Emilia, a small city in Italy, Visible Learners offers research-based practices for fostering learning in groups through documentation. In this approach, first developed during a long-term collaboration between researchers at Harvard's Project Zero and Reggio educators, learning becomes a visible activity that develops students' intellectual capacities as well as their individual and group identities as learners. Visible classrooms can be identified by five key principles—that learning is purposeful, social, representational, empowering, and emotional. The authors define each principle using illustrative learning portraits, quotes from students and teachers, pictures, reflections, and examples of student work. Additionally, the authors offer teachers and administrators practical ways to enhance learning by increasing collaboration and critical thinking across grade levels and subject matter. Also included is a section containing dozens of tools for making learners and learning visible, incorporating guidelines for the classroom and the staffroom as well as ideas for engaging students' families. Visible Learners shows how observing and documenting learning can change the nature of that learning, and asks teachers to look beyond surface to understand who their students are, what they come to know, and how they come to know it.  ISBN: 978-1118345696

Portfolio Practices: Thinking Through the Assessment of Children's Work