The Making Learning Visible Project began as a collaboration between researchers at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and educators in the municipal schools of Reggio Emilia, Italy. They sought to bring together Project Zero’s experience of creating authentic and ongoing assessments and Reggio’s experience documenting the individual and group learning of young children.
The first phase of this project was geared toward better understanding the practices in Reggio Emilia’s municipal schools and the ways they supported learning. Two key practices came to the fore—learning in groups and documenting learning through a variety of media to support learning. These became the two foci of the Making Learning Visible (MLV) Project, which worked in subsequent phases to support these practices in U.S. classrooms preschool thru high school.
Teachers who have participated in the MLV Project are collaborating with the Documentation Studio in a number of ways: they share documentation they are working on, exhibit their work, and share perspectives on the work of others.
For more information about the Making Learning Visible Project, visit their website. For resources developed by the Making Learning Visible Project, visit their Weebly page.