Gold Standard PBL: Teaching Practices
Resource List: Managing a Project
Articles, videos, and rubrics to help K-12 teachers learn how to manage activities in PBL units.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
A PBL Culture of Thinking: Routines
Why projects should focus on student thinking, not only the product, with sample thinking routines for each of the 4 phases of a project.
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.
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.