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A PBL Culture of Thinking: Routines
Why projects should focus on student thinking, not only the product, with sample thinking routines for each of the 4 phases of a project.
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How to Strengthen Your PBL Plan Amid Teacher Turnover and Workforce Shifts
Discover strategies for school leaders to strengthen PBL, support teacher retention, and navigate workforce transformation in today’s K–12 education.
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PBL Blossoms When You Grow Your Network
An elementary teacher gives 5 suggestions for a "PBL Support Team" including resource teachers, librarians, local organizations, and families.
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Using the Need to Know List as a Planning & Assessment Tool
Tips for sorting students' questions at project launch, and using the list to track progress during a project.
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Putting PBL into Practice: The Workshop Model
How to provide structure within a project with a framework for inquiry, drafting of work, and reflection.
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Making PBL Feel Less Foreign to Foreign Language Teachers
How to avoid 2 common traps and find the key to good project: authenticity.
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Overcoming a Math Challenge Using the Process Communication Model
How a teacher coached a young “math person” who struggled with the open-endedness of a project about starting a business.
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Making PBL Observer-Friendly
3 ways to help administrators, community members, or other teachers understand what they see when visiting a PBL classroom.
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PBL vs Product-Based Learning
How to avoid putting too much time and emphasis on creating the product in a project, instead of focusing on what students are learning.
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Making Time for Reflection in Our Projects
When to ask students to reflect, how to organize the process, and what questions to ask.