Essays, PowerPoint presentations, multiple-choice tests: Educators and students know all of the traditional summative learning assessments. While familiar assessments can be a good thing, at the end of the last school year our students were experiencing assessment fatigue.

To combat this, my co-teacher at The Possible Zone and I tried something relatively new: a documentation panel. The Possible Zone is an entrepreneurship and work-based learning program for 10th through 12th graders in Boston, with a mission to advance economic equity. Over Boston Public Schools’ spring break in April 2022, we taught a mini research boot camp, during which students learned about and conducted social science research.

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