PBL Blog

An overview of how the workshops provided by PBLWorks meet the needs of teachers and school leaders.

Reflections from a rafting trip on how running a PBL unit is like a running a river.

New year's resolutions for PBL practice, crowd-sourced from teachers, instructional coaches, and leaders across the USA and around the world.

PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer lists helpful resources and thought-provoking books for teachers and school leaders.

Round them up. Build a pile. Add gasoline, a match, and watch them burn.

PBL Blog editor John Larmer travels to Shanghai and finds growing interest in PBL. Similar to the US, in China most of the PBL is happening so far in private schools while public school systems are slower to adopt innovations.

A comparison of High Quality PBL and the recent book, How People Learn II.

New workshops and events being planned for the premiere event for Project Based Learning.

An overview of the ASCD/PBLWorks book by Suzie Boss, with John Larmer, along with 8 short videos about Project Based Teaching Practices.

Parallels between PBL and pre-industrial agriculture, and how PBL can help create "reciprocal, relational, regenerative communities."