Observe
Start with observation. Not evaluation, not measurement — just paying attention. When you watch without an agenda, you see more than you expected.
Learning happens everywhere... Prism makes it visible.
A portfolio platform for capturing learning that matters and supporting what emerges.
Lotus
Lotus asked to stay late to keep practicing. She's been working on the same rhythm pattern for three days now, adjusting her tempo until it felt right.
Learning Signals
Rhythm & Timing
Persistence
Self-Direction
Sage
Mira
The girls decided to double the recipe, which meant figuring out what "1½ cups times two" actually meant. They debated, calculated, and got it right.
Learning Signals
Fractions
Collaboration
Problem Solving
River
River experimented with letting the colors bleed into each other instead of fighting it. "I used to think mistakes ruined everything," she said. "Now I work with them."
Learning Signals
Artistic Expression
Growth Mindset
Experimentation
Theo
Marcus
Theo spent twenty minutes explaining the card values and trading strategies to Marcus. He's become the go-to expert, and younger kids seek him out for advice.
Learning Signals
Peer Teaching
Strategic Thinking
Leadership
Learning is already happening
Not because the curriculum was perfect. Not because someone assigned it. It's just what children do — negotiate, experiment, persist, wonder, create.
The question isn't how to make learning happen. It's how to see it — and how to support it.
A different approach to documentation
They're asking the wrong question. They want to know if your child is 'keeping up' with arbitrary standards. You want to know if your child is becoming who they're meant to be.
Reflect
Then you reflect it back. A photo, a few words, a moment captured. This isn't bureaucratic record-keeping. It's saying I noticed and this mattered.
Expand
The child sees themselves reflected. The parent sees what they couldn't witness. Patterns emerge that nobody planned. The documentation opens up what comes next.
Witness the full spectrum of learning
The best teachers and facilitators bring intention to everything; structured lessons, curated offerings, and the space for something unexpected to emerge. You're doing more than delivering content. You're noticing what sparks curiosity. You're making space for projects and play. You can see where the real learning is happening — even when it doesn't look like "school."
Prism helps you capture all of it.
Cool philosophy.
How does it work, though?
Document learning as it happens.
Sometimes it's a quick photo and a sentence — captured in the moment before it's gone.
Sometimes it's a thoughtful reflection you write later, unpacking what you noticed and why it mattered.
Describe what you witnessed.
Maybe it was the outcome. Maybe it was the process. Maybe it was growth that extended beyond the activity itself.
Prism lets you capture what mattered most.
Let Prism uncover the learning signals.
Your perspective on what happened is the essential input. Prism surfaces the subjects, skills, learning modes, and interests woven through each moment.
Keep the qualitative — and get the quantitative, too.
Watch patterns emerge.
One entry is a snapshot. Dozens become a portrait.
Prism tracks the threads running through your observations — subjects, skills, interests that keep resurfacing. You don't have to remember everything. You just have to notice.
Patterns view coming soon
Get help with the tedious parts.
Writing transcripts. Summarizing three months of growth for an evaluator. Turning scattered observations into coherent narratives.
These things matter — but they pull you away from being present. Prism handles the synthesis. You stay in the moment.
Report generation coming soon
Support each learner's unique journey.
Use modern tools for sense-making, resource-finding, and strewing ideas based on what's actually emerging for each child.
Every portfolio entry adds more information, which means deeper insights over time.
Resources feature coming soon
Build comprehensive portfolios.
Learning happens everywhere — at home, at school, in the community. Prism brings it all together in one place.
Any educator can contribute. Parents retain ownership at all times. The portfolio travels with the learner, not the institution.
Portfolio browsing coming soon
We built Prism because
we needed it
Scattered photos. Notes buried in apps. That familiar feeling of knowing your kids are learning incredible things, but not being able to show it. We've lived all of it.
Before Prism
With Prism
You're a homeschooling parent
You've got:
- Photos scattered across phones, online class certificates buried in email—none of it connected
- A child who's growing in ways you can't quite articulate
- Grandparents or family who'd love to see what's happening—but you never have the time to pull something together
- Questions (or slowly mounting anxiety) about transcripts as high school approaches
- The invisible labor of holding it all in your head—every project, every breakthrough, every spark of curiosity
- A desire to see and behold the complete picture of your child's educational journey
- A need to feel prepared—in case they ever try school, or need records for anything
- One searchable portfolio—photos, notes, and PDFs from online classes—all analyzed together
- Custom, privacy-focused AI surfaces subjects, skills, learning modes, and interests from online classes and offline moments
- Share a beautiful, living portfolio with grandparents and family anytime
- Generate transcripts whenever you need them—ready in minutes, not hours
- Capture moments in seconds; finally let go of holding it all in your head
- See your child's complete learning journey unfold over time
- Feel prepared for whatever comes next—evaluators, school, or college applications
You're running a microschool
You've got:
- Hours of documentation effort scattered across apps and newsletters—none of it adding up to something coherent
- Learner stories trapped in your systems when families leave
- That "Ugh, forget it!" feeling when a grant proposal asks you to document learning outcomes
- That frustrating inability to hand the next school a real picture of who this learner became
- Hat #13: getting everyone on the same page about documentation
- Hours upon hours invested without the tools to capture and organize the most important things
- An incredible learning environment that deserves to be seen, understood, and valued for what it facilitates
- Every observation builds toward something coherent and lasting
- When families leave, their complete story goes with them—portable and theirs forever
- Pull learning outcomes for grants and reports in minutes, not hours
- Hand off a meaningful record to the next school—a real picture of who this learner became
- Simple enough that any teacher or facilitator can contribute—no extra training required
- Finally, the tools to capture and organize what matters most
- Make visible the incredible learning your environment facilitates
What people are saying
"As the parent of an unschooling child, I can attest to the fact that kids learn "academic" skills in the daily flow of life. Documenting that learning when it's happening all day can be a challenge, but Prism makes it so easy! With a quick photo upload and description, Prism's in-app AI feature brilliantly categorizes activities and allows for generation of summary reports and academic transcripts."
Adrienne Robinson
Parent
"Prism allows us to easily make visual all the embedded learning happening at Wildly Inclusive. Parents love seeing what learners are up to all day, and they rave about the ability to save individual photos on their personal devices."
Amber Crews
Program Director, Wildly Inclusive Cooperative
"Prism has been so helpful in streamlining our documenting system. It's made it simple for multiple facilitators to contribute, and easy to train them to use it. Parents appreciate that they can see what kinds of projects their kids are doing at school. I also like that parents and students can add to their portfolios on their own—because learning can happen anywhere!"
Jennie Jones
Founder and Director, The Treehouse
"Prism is everything I was looking for in a documentation app! All the pictures I take for documentation now have a home, learning outcomes can be identified and everything can easily be shared with families."
Sandra Rivas
Director, Peaceful Gatherings Nature School
"Prism has been everything our nature based microschool was looking for, and more. It has been so much fun being able to capture all of the incredible learning moments that happen in our environment, and then sufficiently be able to communicate those to caregivers. The addition of the AI technology has been even more amazing and has made it even easier for our staff to document."
Chelsea Harrington
Co-Founder and Director, Evergreen Academy
"Prism has quickly become an essential tool for our community. We view reflection as a key part of how learners understand themselves and their growth. Prism makes it easy to document and share those reflections with families, providing meaningful insight into what happens within the programs at Dandelion Project each day."
Lauren Umlauf
Executive Director, The Dandelion Project
"I love the Prism app. It has made such a profound impact in digesting my child's education. Prism serves as both a portfolio and a guide, supporting within the process of documenting and understanding the learning that is within our everyday experiences. The learning signals are a complete game changer, as I am now able to translate how unschooling connects to traditional education values."
Sasha Kelley
Parent
Resources for you and your learning community
Guides and frameworks to help you document authentic learning.
Digital Portfolios for K-12 Education
A complete guide to implementing educational portfolios that capture authentic learning.
Read guideProject-Based Learning Assessment
Frameworks for assessing deep learning through projects and real-world application.
Read guideSelf-Directed Learning Documentation
Practical strategies for documenting learning that emerges from children's interests.
Read guideUnschooling Portfolios
How to document unschooling while meeting state requirements and college prep needs.
Read guideA lot happened today
Now you have a way to show it.
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