Primary / Elementary School

Kids Are the Experts! Making Learning Visible in Boston Public Schools

During the 2011-12 school year, 30 Boston Public School early childhood teachers and eight Head Start teachers took a course called Making Learning Visible: Kids are the Experts! The teachers explored how to help children recognize and communicate to others their areas of expertise through words, images, and demonstrations. This short film follows the process of making how-to books and other products in two classrooms at the Gardner Pilot Academy.

Documentation: Transforming our Perspectives

This 16-minute film by Melissa Rivard and Stephanie Cox Suarez for the Documentation Studio at Wheelock College features conversations with leaders from Reggio about the practice of documentation and its role in teaching and learning.

The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

The paper that describes the theory and rationale of Multiple Intelligences.

Multiple Intelligences FAQ

A collection of the frequently asked questions, and Howard Gardners' responses, around Multiple Intelligences.

The Theory of Multiple Intelligences: As Psychology, As Education, As Social Science

A reflective paper (2011) by Howard Gardner about MI Theory and the ways in which it was developed and has changed since it's initial conception.