How-to Tips and Tools
PBL Strategy Guides: Tips for Remote & Hybrid Learning
Here’s a look at the 6 PBL Strategy Guides that include tips for remote learning.
PBL Blog
PBL and CTE
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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.
Recent Blogs
How-to Tips and Tools
Using a Project Wall to Support Gold Standard Project Based Teaching
The why, what and how of using a "project wall" in the PBL classroom to focus students and capture process and work-in-progress.
Getting Real About Teaching Native American Heritage and Culture
What We've Been Told “Can’t we just have a nice meal?” my mother asked at the Thanksgiving dinner table after my first college
Gold Standard PBL: Teaching Practices
Gold Standard PBL: Project Based Teaching Practices
An overview of the 7 Project Based Teaching Practices in PBLWorks' model for Gold Standard PBL.
How-to Tips and Tools
Creating a Culture of Belonging
The principal of a low-income school tells how its staff involved parents & students in design thinking and modeled the PBL process.
General PBL
Research Brief: What can we learn from John Hattie about Project Based Teaching? – Part 2
The former director of the Buck Institute for Education connects the findings of researcher John Hattie to Project Based Teaching and our model of Gold Standard Project Based Learning.
How-to Tips and Tools
Start the Year with a Project, or Build Skills First?
What to consider before launching the first project in the school year, and how to build students’ skills to prepare them for PBL.
Projects in Action
Culture, Community Come Together in PBL Down Under
The story of an early-elementary project about aboriginal culture and traditional agricultural practices at Banora Point Primary School, Australia.
How-to Tips and Tools
It Takes a System for High Quality PBL
How school district leaders work on coherence, culture, capacity building, and continuous improvement.