Looking Together at Student Work (On School Reform)

• A new chapter on the role of the facilitator, including techniques.
• An updated list of publications and organizations that can provide further help.

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.

Retaining all of its practical, user-friendly features, this updated edition introduces:

• A new section summarizing recent research that supports looking at student work as an instructional and school improvement strategy.
• “The Consultancy”, an additional protocol that shows groups how to address issues and dilemmas of practice using student work as evidence.
• A new case study.

Tina Blythe is director of faculty development at the Boston Architectural College and adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. David Allen is a senior research associate at the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching (NCREST) at Teachers College, Columbia University. Barbara Schieffelin Powell is an educational consultant.