PBL Blog

PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer comments on designing projects about gun issues, and the problem with large high schools.

Why transferring ownership of questions for inquiry from teacher to students is key to engagement, and how to generate better questions.

PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer offers advice for educators on schools to visit, and for parents wondering where to send their kids to.

How to leverage students' questions, interests, and concerns when launching a project that connects to their lives.

3 tips: clarify learning goals, formatively assess and provide guided practice, and create space for thinking about thinking.

Facilitating high quality collaboration among students with Google Slides.

Students create guidelines for parents on teens' use of social media, using resources from Common Sense Media.

A middle school instructional coach recommends tech tools to help with problems of practice in 3 Gold Standard PBL Project Design Elements.

A project that went beyond expectations, in which children planned and carried out a kindness campaign to help others in their community and beyond.

PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer argues for more frequent and regular use of PBL across a school and throughout the year, to maximize its impact on students and build an effective PBL school culture.