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.
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What Students Say About Project Based Learning
In this recap of a student panel at PBL World 2026, graduating seniors from Envision Academy of Arts and Technology (Oakland, CA) reflect on how Project Based Learning shaped them as learners and leaders. Students describe gaining confidence in sharing ideas, developing communication and time-management skills for college, and learning to collaborate with peers outside their friend groups. They offer advice for educators on choice, resources, and scaffolding independent thinking before group work. The recurring themes: PBL builds student voice, strengthens collaboration, and prepares students for what comes next.
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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
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.
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
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.
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.