The Gift of Sight: Why You Cannot VTS on Your Own
The core of the VTS experience lies in the fact that it takes place with other people.
Tending a Garden Requires Care: VTS, Making Art, and Deep Listening
Learning requires collaboration and a humble reorientation to knowledge that encourages improvisation.
Letter from Milwaukee
VTS has become a vital part of my instruction and I am convinced it can work for all students.
A Note from the Editor
This edition of Site Specific takes the form of a dispatch or letter from one classroom teacher to others. Written with warmth, humor, and passion, it is a personal reflection on the remarkable changes that VTS encourages in students over the course of a year. In it,...
Letter from the Editor
As VTS Trainers working in schools, perhaps one of the most frequent requests we encounter is for more information on how to leverage the types of learning that occur during VTS discussions into other areas of the curriculum. This edition of Site Specific is devoted...
The Power of VTS Writing Lab Changed Me, Then My School District
Three, deceptively simple questions changed my teaching practice forever. I wondered, could we also teach writing using VTS?
Honoring Students, Teachers, and the Work of Kerry James Marshall Through VTS
How VTS helped shape communities of practice that value diverse input and prioritize inclusive discussion.
As Opposed To…
Clearly, the curriculum was failing this classroom. How should a facilitator respond in such a situation?
What Is Site Specific?
Sitting in the wide variety of sessions offered at the Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) Summer Institute Share Outs in 2017, we heard experienced practitioners from around the world present on using VTS to support their work in science museums, writing labs, and...