# Prism — Learning Made Visible

> A learning documentation and portfolio platform for microschools, homeschooling families, and self-directed learning communities.

Prism helps parents, educators, and families capture authentic learning moments — photos, observations, reflections — and uses AI to surface the educational dimensions present in each experience. Portfolios belong to families, not institutions. Learning signals identify subject areas, skills, developmental domains, and interests without forcing experiences into predetermined categories.

## About

- Founded by Tomis Parker, a 15-year veteran of the self-directed education movement
- Co-founder of the Agile Learning Centers network
- Based in Charlotte, North Carolina
- Website: https://prism.guide
- Pricing: https://prism.guide/pricing
- About: https://prism.guide/about

## Key Pages

- Homepage: https://prism.guide
- Blog: https://prism.guide/blog
- Feature Guide: https://prism.guide/features
- Educator Quick Start: https://prism.guide/features/educators
- Pricing: https://prism.guide/pricing
- About: https://prism.guide/about
- Homeschool Compliance Guide: https://prism.guide/tools/compliance-guide

## Blog Posts

- [Seen and Known: A Year In at Two Microschools](https://prism.guide/blog/seen-and-known-a-year-in-at-two-microschools) — A year in at The Treehouse and The Dandelion Project: two microschool directors describe how documentation became a daily practice, how evidence became portable for families, and what it means for kids to feel seen and known. (by Tomis Parker, May 15, 2026)
- [The Microschool Movement Has a Measurement Problem](https://prism.guide/blog/microschool-movement-measurement-problem) — The problem isn't that we can't measure learning. It's that we've inherited a definition of measurement that was never designed to capture it. The microschool movement needs to define better terms. (by Tomis Parker, March 9, 2026)
- [What School Choice Is Really For](https://prism.guide/blog/what-school-choice-is-really-for) — A review of Radical Dreamers by Joseph Viteritti reveals a persistent blind spot in school choice policy: the assumption that academic achievement is the point. What if the real failure is something deeper? (by Tomis Parker, January 3, 2026)
- [Why I Built Prism](https://prism.guide/blog/why-i-built-prism) — After 15 years of creating learning environments that trust children, I kept hitting the same wall: how do you capture the depth of authentic learning without flattening it? Here's the story behind Prism. (by Tomis Parker, December 10, 2025)

## Resource Articles

- [Digital Portfolios for K-12 Education](https://prism.guide/resources/digital-portfolios-education) — Complete guide to living digital portfolios that capture learning as it unfolds
- [Project-Based Learning Assessment](https://prism.guide/resources/project-based-learning-assessment) — Practical rubrics, portfolio strategies, and documentation approaches for PBL
- [Self-Directed Learning Documentation](https://prism.guide/resources/self-directed-learning-documentation) — Document self-directed learning without killing the magic
- [Unschooling Portfolios](https://prism.guide/resources/unschooling-portfolios) — Make unschooling visible with portfolios that honor natural learning

## Who Prism Is For

- **Homeschooling families** documenting their children's learning journeys
- **Microschools** and learning communities needing collaborative documentation
- **Self-directed education programs** (Agile Learning Centers, Sudbury schools, forest schools)
- **Educators** who want to capture authentic learning without standardized assessments
- **Parents** who want to make their children's learning visible to family, evaluators, or colleges

## Core Features

- Multi-learner tagging: capture one moment for multiple children's portfolios
- Collaborative documentation: parents, educators, tutors, and family members contribute
- AI-powered Learning Signals: surface subject areas, skills, and developmental domains
- Family-owned portfolios: records travel with the child, not the institution
- Transcript and report generation from portfolio evidence
- iOS and Android mobile apps
- State-by-state homeschool compliance guidance