A Boomerang Classroom product
Student Research Project Management System
Boomerang Projects guides students through the small decisions that produce serious research, writing, and presentations. Questions, sources, plans, drafts, teacher feedback, student peer review, and revisions become part of a dated record that students can explain and own.
Our pilot is underway. Join the waitlist, and we'll contact you as additional spots open in spring 2027.
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Student view · early-access app
Visible process. Student-owned work.
Students test a question, gather sources, change direction, develop claims, receive responses, and return with a stronger version. Boomerang Projects keeps those steps legible instead of waiting for one finished file at the end.
The work moves outward in small commitments and returns through teacher feedback and student peer review. Each return creates another conversation before the final due date.
The Reverse Timeline works backward from the final deadline and gives each checkpoint a reason. Students see the project as a sequence of manageable choices. Teachers see where a useful return or conference belongs.
Visible process in the age of AI
AI detectors evaluate a finished text after uncertainty has already entered the conversation. Boomerang Projects gives teachers a longer record: when a student narrowed a question, why a source entered the project, how the reasoning changed, what teachers and classmates returned, and what the student revised.
That record supports an ongoing conversation about authorship. The teacher can ask about choices while the work remains open, and the student has repeated opportunities to explain those choices.
Boomerang Projects does not generate student writing or use an AI detector.
The philosophy
The hardest part of any extended research project is the middle — when a student has a question, half a bibliography, an unfinished argument, and a deadline that suddenly looks closer than it did yesterday. Boomerang Projects was built around that middle. Give students room to notice, freedom to imagine, and a clear workspace to turn ideas into work a real audience could read or watch.
Independent research projects are student-led — that's the point. Boomerang Projects adds the kind of light structure that protects student agency instead of replacing it. Customizable timelines. Visible milestones. Quiet accountability.
Citation tools (MLA, APA, Chicago), source-credibility scoring, your rubric — all live inside the workspace, so students and teachers stop searching the internet for what their own project already requires.
Good research moves past what is toward what could be. Every screen is designed to keep that motion going — from a question, to evidence, to a recommendation a real audience could act on.
Who it's for
Extended research projects come in many forms. Some require collaboration, some are a paper only, others end in a presentation or a defense. Boomerang Projects supports the workflow underneath all of them — and a research-based workflow that supports the AP Seminar approach as well.
Individual extended papers — question, evidence, recommendation.
General Research Studio
Group projects that defend a position with sources and a multimedia deck.
Team Presentations Studio
Persuasive papers backed by evidence and counterclaims.
Research & Argument Studio
Question → method → data → conclusion, with a board or presentation.
Science Fair Studio
Year-long culminating projects — paper, product, or performance.
Senior Capstone Studio
Extended scholarly papers for honors program completion.
Honors Thesis Studio
4,000-word independent investigations in a chosen subject.
Portfolio Studio
The workflow inside the workspace matches the AP Seminar and AP Research approach to research and presentation.
Research & Argument Studio · Extended Research Studio
Eight Studios
Inside Boomerang Projects, students work in a Studio matched to their project type. Each Studio shares the same research-and-writing workflow, with adjustments to deliverables, milestones, and rubric language.
for AP Seminar coursework
for AP Research coursework
for IB Diploma coursework
for science fair projects
for year-long senior projects
for any extended research paper
for team-presentation projects
for honors program theses
The product
Boomerang Projects organizes the actual shape of extended research work, from a question through credible sources and into a draft or a deck. Teacher feedback, student peer review, and rubric-aligned self-assessment remain connected to the work. The screens below are real views from the early-access app.
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One dashboard. The components your class is working on — Research Report, Team Presentation, Individual Presentation, Argument Paper, and more — each tied to your class rubric. Students see exactly what they're working on, what's next, and what the rubric will reward. Less guessing. More argument.
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Pick the final due date. Boomerang Projects works backward through the project type — Topic Lock, Perspectives Map, Bibliography, Drafts, Peer Feedback — so students always know what's due next. Relaxed, Standard, or Compressed pacing, exportable to CSV for the gradebook.
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MLA, APA, and Chicago on a one-click toggle. Choose the source-evaluation method that fits your classroom — RAVEN, SIFT, or CRAAP — so source quality becomes a habit, not a last-minute check. Bibliography-level flags tied directly to rubric rows surface gaps before the rubric does.
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Group projects live on coordination. A shared board — Backlog, In Progress, Peer Review, Done — keeps every teammate's work visible. Each card carries a rubric row, an owner, and an estimate. Contribution Receipts roll the whole board up per teammate, so participation evidence is built in, not reconstructed at the end.
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Students use the same rubric language to respond to one another's drafts. Teachers remain in the process through conferences, targeted comments, and the teacher triage view. Writers receive a response before the final due date and preserve what they changed.
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Teachers create rubrics in plain language — rows, levels, descriptors — then those rows show up next to the draft, on the bibliography, on the team board, and in self-assessment. Six starter templates (Research Report, Argument Paper, Team Presentation, Individual Presentation, Science Fair, Senior Capstone) get you to a working rubric in ten minutes, or build from a blank rubric.
A teacher-built workspace
Designed by a 20+ year high school English teacher who runs extended research projects every year. Every screen exists because a real cohort of students hit a real wall — and a real teacher had to solve it on a Tuesday morning.
Your rubric rows aren't buried in a help doc. They appear next to the draft, next to the bibliography, and inside the dashboard — in your own words.
Limited data collection. FERPA-aware language. No third-party trackers in student-facing flows. The system records what supports teaching, feedback, revision, and continuity.
Teacher and student feedback
Student peer review is part of the learning process, not an extra activity after the writing. Students become more careful readers when they apply shared rubric language to a classmate's argument, and writers receive another perspective while revision remains possible.
Teachers remain active through conferences, mini-lessons, targeted comments, and the triage queue. Boomerang Projects keeps teacher feedback and student-to-student response connected to the stage of work that prompted it.
Common questions
No. Boomerang Projects does not generate student writing, score authorship, or use an AI detector. It organizes the stages of research, writing, feedback, peer review, and revision so students and teachers can see how the work develops.
The platform builds a dated record across the project. Teachers see questions, source choices, reasoning, drafts, responses, and revisions before the final submission. That continuing record supports conversations about authorship and gives students repeated opportunities to demonstrate ownership.
No. The project record gives teachers better material for judgment and conversation. Teachers still decide what to assign, when to respond, which evidence matters, and how to evaluate the work.
Boomerang Projects records project activity needed for teaching, feedback, revision, and continuity. Its data-restraint principle keeps the focus on the developing work.
In the room
Early access is part of the work
Honest about limitations. Open about implications. Curious about possibilities. The v1 cohort is small on purpose — so we can listen, refine, and ship features the classroom actually needs.
v1 · Early-access release
v2 · After classroom pilots
Pilot underway · Next wave: Spring 2027
The Boomerang Projects pilot is underway, and we're growing in small, supported waves. We'll welcome another limited group of teachers in spring 2027 as we continue learning from classroom use and refining the experience.
"Boomerang Projects came directly out of running extended research projects with high schoolers — out of watching students do their best thinking when the workflow stopped getting in their way. The tools we put in classrooms should reflect the best of teaching: trust, judgment, and care. The freedom these projects are built on is worth protecting, and the structure that protects it is worth building well."
— Drew Snow, Founder & CEO, Boomerang Classroom
drew@boomerangclassroom.com
