Learning happens everywhere... Prism makes it visible.

A portfolio platform for capturing learning that matters and supporting what emerges.

Child deeply focused while playing drums

James Whitfield Today

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

Children collaborating on baking cookies together

Rachel Mendez Yesterday

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

David Chen Monday

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

Child teaching another about Pokemon cards

Nina Okonkwo Last week

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.

Observe

Start with observation. Not evaluation, not measurement — just paying attention. When you watch without an agenda, you see more than you expected.

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.

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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.

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
Voice memos to yourself you never get around to transcribing
Days you know you did school but never wrote down
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
Subjects, skills, learning modes and interests surfaced from what you actually wrote
Share a beautiful, living portfolio with grandparents and family anytime
Generate transcripts whenever you need them—ready in minutes, not hours
Talk instead of type, and ten seconds becomes a written draft
A school-day counter that fills itself in from what you documented
Ask your portfolio what to try next, and get an answer drawn from your own entries
See your child's complete learning journey unfold over time
Feel prepared for whatever comes next—evaluators, school, or college applications

Try Prism for free

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
Attendance kept by hand in a spreadsheet that lives somewhere else
Everything a facilitator noticed about a child, gone the week they leave
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
Roll call already half-filled by what your team documented
Reports read through your program's own framework, in your own words
Finally, the tools to capture and organize what matters most
Make visible the incredible learning your environment facilitates

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Cool philosophy.
How does it work, though?

In the moment

Say what you saw

A documentation practice has to survive a real day, with real children and eleven other things happening. So Prism takes it either way: a sentence you speak while your hands are full, or something longer you take real time over, because what you witnessed had more in it than you could catch in passing.

Sometimes you just talk.

Your hands are full. The moment is happening right now. Tap the microphone and say what you're seeing out loud, and Prism writes it down for you, in your words.

Ten seconds of talking becomes a draft with your reflection already written. The audio isn't kept; the words are the record.

Say as much as it deserves.

Maybe it was the outcome. Maybe it was the process. Maybe it was something that reached well past the activity itself.

Sometimes that's a photo and a line. Sometimes it's a reflection you write that evening, unpacking what your learner was working through and what surprised you. Prism holds both, and everything after the first keystroke saves itself.

A child adding a block to a long wooden structure they are building

Wherever you are.

The moment happens at the creek, not at a desk. Prism's iPhone and Android apps put the capture button in the bottom bar and the camera one tap away, in light or dark to match the rest of your phone.

Catch it on your phone, finish it on a laptop. It's the same portfolio either way.

A child walking a gravel path at the edge of the woods, reading an open map

Everyone who was there.

One child, one portfolio, and everyone who witnessed something writing into it. Two facilitators, both parents, a grandparent who had them for the weekend.

No one person has to hold the whole picture, which is what makes a documentation practice survive past the first enthusiastic month.

When a learner is ready for it, they can have an account of their own. That changes what the portfolio is: not a record kept about them, but one they are helping to write. And intentionally deciding what mattered is the most important kind of learning.

A group of learners writing around one long shared table, an adult leaning in beside them

Over months

It keeps its shape

A grade flattens a child to a number. A test flattens a year to a percentile. A report card flattens all of it to five adjectives. Prism averages nothing. What you wrote stays what you wrote, and everything it produces points back to it.

Let Prism uncover the learning signals.

Subjects, skills, developmental domains and interests, surfaced from what you actually described rather than picked off a list.

Which is why a richer reflection produces a truer picture than a caption ever will. The more you give Prism, the more it can see.

Watch patterns emerge.

One entry is a snapshot. Dozens become a portrait. Themes surface across weeks and months that nobody set out to create.

You start to see what a child returns to, what they avoid, and where something is quietly getting stronger.

Ask your own portfolio what comes next.

Every learner's portfolio is a library, and the Prism Assistant reads it only when you send it in with a question. "What should I leave on the coffee table next?" "Where has she used math without being asked?" The answers come from her actual entries: real books, real projects, real things happening near you.

It comes back with whole resources too: a learning story for a grandparent, a transcript for an evaluator, a report in whatever framework you need.

Every suggestion shows the moments it came from; if the portfolio doesn't show something, it says so.

When someone asks

It still sounds like them

The world will want a format. An evaluator needs days. A college needs credits. The next school needs a category. Prism produces all of it without giving up the child underneath.

A transcript built from what actually happened.

Some of it maps to a course that already exists: the algebra, the literature. Most of the interesting parts don't.

So Prism writes the course. A title and a description drawn from what your learner actually did, mapped to credit hours and subject categories a registrar can read, in language that still sounds like them.

A transcript with course titles written from the portfolio

The days count themselves.

If your state asks for a hundred and eighty days, you shouldn't have to keep a second record to prove it. Every day you document a moment is a day that counts.

Set your school year once. The counter fills itself in from the documenting you were already doing. One entry can cover many dates too: a ten-day trip documented once, and every day of it counts.

And when you need it on paper

Documents, generated from the entries you already wrote, for the evaluator, the next school, or the family.

Academic transcript

Course titles, credit hours and subject categories mapped to your state's requirements.

Portfolio export

A formatted PDF of the whole year, organized by subject, ready for an evaluator.

Learning story

A narrative account of what a stretch of documentation adds up to.

Goal analysis

Where a learner actually stands against goals you named, with the evidence.

These things matter, and they pull you away from being present. Prism handles the synthesis. You stay in the moment.

Your program's own lens

Programs can name the qualities their community actually cares about, in their own words, and Prism reads every learner's documented moments through them. It cites the entries behind each observation, and when a domain has nothing behind it yet, it says so rather than inventing something.

Start from an authored framework: the Mastery Transcript, Reggio Emilia, Charlotte Mason, the Emerging Portrait or the IB Learner Profile. Or create your own custom lens for any model or framework.

Want to go deeper? Explore the full feature guide

The portfolio belongs to the learner.

Not to us, and not to any program they pass through. Private by default, exportable whenever you want it, and when they move on, everything anyone wrote about them goes with them.

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

"What I love most about Prism is that it feels less like "record keeping" and more like storytelling. It allows me to capture real learning moments: conversations, projects, field trips, scavenger hunts, everyday discoveries. And not just completed assignments… Instead of scrambling in the spring to piece together a portfolio, I feel like I'm building one intentionally all year long."

Abbie Falls

Parent · App Store review

"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.

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