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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 Project Based Learning Helped My Multilingual Students Find Their Voice
What happens when we invite students to share the most personal parts of their lives through schoolwork? Can learning that centers
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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.