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Effective PD for Project Based Learning
Leaders of a PBL a school offer 6 tips from their experience and call for investing in targeted, sustained professional development.
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Not Your Typical Conference: What Sets PBL World Apart
It feels almost unfair to talk about summer right now. The days are still packed with grading, lesson planning, meetings, and the
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Protocols and Routines: Habits for a Student-Centered Classroom
An excerpt from the book Project Based Teaching, with several examples of strategies teachers can use to build a productive PBL culture in the classroom.
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The Ultimate Team Work Management Tool: Kanban Boards
A detailed look at a tool for helping students manage themselves and their work in a project.
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Keeping Your Eye on the Learning Prize in PBL
Four tips to help ensure a focus on student learning during a PBL unit: unpack standards and success skills, specify learning targets, focus walkthroughs on learning.
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My Plans for PBL Leadership in 2019
A high school principal explains how he plans to lead his PBL school, with 6 questions to guide PBL implementation.
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Our Top 20 PBL Blog Posts of 2018
How-to tips, projects in action, and other topics by PBLWorks staff, National Faculty and guest bloggers.
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How Teacher Blogging Aligns with PBL: 5 Tips for Getting Started
How blogging can be useful for teachers' professional growth, and helpful in supporting students' writing in projects.
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A Day in a PBL Classroom: Demise of the “PBL Block”
PBL should be the learning your class is doing every day during regularly scheduled learning time.
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Students Use Tuning Protocol for Critique & Revision in PBL
A 9th grade biology teacher explains how students use a formative assessment tool to improve their work in a project on diseases.