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General PBL

The Gift of Time That PBL Allows

A teacher reflects on how to make students aware of their learning journey, and on the importance of giving them the time to enjoy learning.
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How-to Tips and Tools

Creating a Schoolwide PBL Timeline

How school leaders modeled a PBL culture by involving teachers in a “project” to respond to concerns about students’ workloads.
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General PBL

How to Prepare Students for PBL

PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer shares tips and resources for starting the school year with students who are new to PBL.
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How-to Tips and Tools

How Students Become Ideal Teammates

In a computational thinking and coding project, teachers taught collaboration and communication skills by having students define good teamwork, set roles, make agreements about how to work together, engage in team-building strategies, and use a collaboration rubric.
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PBL and Equity

The Pedagogy of Poverty and its Antidote: PBL

PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer recaps a classic article from 1991 about urban education, race, and control-based schooling—and finds parallels between the author’s call for “good teaching” and Project Based Learning.