PBL and Equity
PBL is the Movement for This Moment
Reflections on racial justice and how students need to be given agency for transformative action.
PBL Blog
From Skills to Purpose: How Project Based Learning Brings Literacy to Life
“Literacy development has always been connected to identity, skills, intellect, criticality, and joy. When we reduce it to only
Recent Blogs
PBL and Equity
Equity Issues in Remote Learning Provide Opportunity to Improve Feedback
5 steps to guide teachers in a different approach to learning--one that is not based on simply giving grades.
PBL and Equity
Acknowledging and Honoring Students’ Realities
An excerpt from the new book, Teaching for a Living Democracy: Project-Based Learning in the English and History Classroom.
PBL and Equity
What Your Social Justice Mission Needs to Be: Zaretta Hammond at PBL World 2020
The author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain connects racially equitable education to PBL in her keynote.
PBL and Equity
PBL as an Anchor for Racial Justice Work: Chris Emdin at PBL World 2020
A call for PBL that changes the world – from Day 1 Keynote at PBL World 2020.
PBL and Equity
Schooling Reimagined: Centering Our Students' Humanity and Liberation
Lessons learned from an Oakland school’s response to the killing of Oscar Grant by BART police.
PBL and Equity
Stand for Justice and Take Action Against Racism
A PBLWorks statement in response to the deaths of George Floyd and other Black people.
PBL and Equity
High-Quality PBL as an Equity Imperative
How the six criteria for a student’s experience of high-quality PBL can advance racial equity.
PBL and Equity
Why All Students Deserve PBL – and Why Some Don’t Get It
PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer argues for using PBL with historically underserved students, and addresses common challenges.