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Reflections on racial justice and how students need to be given agency for transformative action.
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Teaching Engineering the Way Engineers Work: Gold Standard PBL in a Detroit Classroom
At University Prep Science and Math High School in Detroit, engineering teacher Jack Pierick runs his Principles of Engineering and Conceptual Design classes the way real engineers work: start with a problem, prototype, test, and improve. Pierick's advice to teachers starting with PBL: expect things to go wrong, reflect after every class, and remember that reaching even one student makes it worthwhile.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.