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Remote PBL is Already Underway at a Middle School in Maine
How a school has been using PBL for snow days, learning lessons for longer closures due to COVID-19.
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How to Strengthen Your PBL Plan Amid Teacher Turnover and Workforce Shifts
Administrators are no strangers to teacher turnover, but there’s now a broader workforce transformation that’s reshaping what
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When a Current Event Project = Coronavirus
Ideas for connecting current events to standards and creating driving questions for projects.
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School Closures? Using PBL in Remote Learning
How to maintain norms and practices of a PBL classroom and use tech tools to do project work away from school, with ideas for engaging students without tech access.
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5 Beliefs That Get in the Way of PBL—and How to Address Them
Why teachers and leaders must examine their core beliefs about good teaching and learning.
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The Power of Apprenticeship in the PBL Classroom
How to use the workshop model and gradual release of responsibility to structure project work time.
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3 Tips for Literacy in Project Based Learning: Challenges and Opportunities
3 tips for supporting students during a project who need to build reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.
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Why I Scrum: Using a Project Management Tool for PBL
A teacher explains how he and his students keep track of multi-step projects.
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Measuring Student Success Skills – Critical Thinking, Part 2: Teaching
3 research-based insights to help guide the teaching of critical thinking in PBL.
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Don’t Ditch the Rigor When the Going Gets Rough
Advice from a teacher about not giving up key features of a project, even if implementation challenges arise.