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5 Breakthroughs to Overcome the PBL Plateau Effect
How to make sure projects stay fresh and maintain students’ enthusiasm.
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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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Student Voice and Choice in the Elementary Grades
A 3rd grade teacher explains how she gave students four opportunities to make choices in a Heroes Museum project.
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4 Tips to Unlock the Power of Protocols
A teacher's advice for making sure critique protocols work well with students.
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Building a PBL Classroom Culture with Reflective Conversations in Restorative Circles
A high school teacher using the Students Rebuild/PBLWorks “Hunger” project explains an effective process for student reflection.
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Future-Oriented STEM Projects Make Students Agents of Change
A STEM teacher makes the case for using PBL to explore topics such as biomimicry and gene editing.
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Beginning With the End in Mind: Making Project Products Clear to Students
5 tips for aligning learning goals with products to help ensure quality work.
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Designing to the Edges: Using Universal Design for Learning in PBL
A teacher explains how she moved from Differentiated Instruction to scaffolding that benefits all students.
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Project Based Writing: A Useful Tool at Every Stage
How to include writing for formative and summative assessment at every stage of a project, in all subject areas.
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5 Lessons Learned on My PBL Journey
A veteran 6th grade teacher tells how she made Project Based Learning work for her classroom.