Hale Janet A. - A guide to documenting learning: making thinking visible, meaningful, shareable, and amplified

In A Guide to Documenting Learning, the authors seek to qualify, rather than quantify, what contemporary learning is all about: looking for, capturing, reflecting, sharing, and amplifying the learning that is taking place. In this text, they break down these actions and how they apply to before-, during-, and after-learning moments and describe a new way to approach contemporary work and self-determined learning.

Michael Fisher, Author and Consultant

The Digigogy Collaborative

Amherst, NY

I love the idea that students can be aware of their learning. It can be documented, reflected on, curated, and shared in order to garner feedback, and the student owns the learning every step of the way.

Kathleen Rodda, Literacy Coach Affiliation

Eucalyptus Elementary

Hawthorne, CA

This book touches upon information that would be useful to any school system because it scaffolds ways that educators can help students make their thinking known, which will only improve their future reasoning skills.

LaQuita Outlaw, Principal

Bay Shore Middle School

Bay Shore, NY

Educators trying to create compelling learning experiences confront the daunting challenge of content-coverage requirements and expectations of teaching to the test. Students and their thinking are often invisible as the only representations of learning made public are marks and rankings. Tolisano and Hale take the inspirational Reggio Emilia approach and scale it into new contexts to create deep learning experiences for todays learners, with an eye on the future of learning as well.

Cameron Paterson, Head of Learning and Teaching

Shore School

North Sydney, Australia

This book will become an important guide for schools and educators to have on their shelves. The content is original and highly organized, and it presents many new ideas on documenting learning. This book takes what is happening in the world of teaching right now and elevates it to a coherent pedagogical process. The graphics are a fantastic resource.

Andrea Hernandez, Educational Consultant

amplifiEDucation and edtechworkshop.blogspot.com

Jacksonville, FL

Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano

To my father, Jochen Rosenthal,

who showed me the importance of

where I come from and where I am going.

Janet A. Hale

To my lifelong friends,

Lisa Frederick, Linda Isaac, and Rondi Little,

who love and support me unconditionally.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Tolisano, Silvia Rosenthal, author. | Hale, Janet A., author.

Title: A guide to documenting learning : making thinking visible, meaningful, shareable, and amplified / Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, Janet A. Hale.

Description: First edition. | Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin, a Sage Company, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017041327 | ISBN 9781506385570 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Educational evaluation. | Curriculum planning. | Student participation in curriculum planning.

Classification: LCC LB2822.75 .T65 2018 | DDC 379.1/58dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017041327

This book is printed on acid-free paper.

I am very proud to write the foreword for this book. Every once in a while, a really important, practical book comes along that can make a difference every day for a wide range of learner abilities. A Guide to Documenting Learning is just such a book. This step-by-step guide provides a framework for helping students and professionals to learn how to learn. Specifically, these pages can help students and teachers capture their learning, reflect on their learning, share their learning, and ultimately, amplify their learning.

My own experience as a teacher, administrator, and now a consultant who has had the opportunity to visit schools around the world has convinced me that many learners are not aware that documentation is a valuable strategy or do not know how to document their learning well. As I am sure you are aware, there has been an explosion of tools and platforms available on every device that, when used creatively, can organize, share, and amplify learning. Silvia and Janets book provides educators with a framework for introducing these tools and platforms to learners and, most importantly, documenting phases and learningflow routine steps to use them well every day. Making sense of tools to purposefully capture learning and understanding how to manage the learning evidence can be overwhelming for even the most tech-savvy educators. Silvia and Janet have done years of experimentation with students and professionals and various tools to provide a clear road map for success.