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It Takes a System for High Quality PBL
How school district leaders work on coherence, culture, capacity building, and continuous improvement.
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
7 Moves to Advance Racial Equity Through PBL
How PBL teachers can support educational equity for Black and Latinx students when designing and implementing Gold Standard PBL.
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How to Create More Meaningful Team Contracts
A teacher and PBLWorks National Faculty member explains how he borrows a tool from restorative practice, the talking circle, to have students talk about collaboration and create their own team contract for projects.
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How to Get Higher Quality Student Work in PBL
PBLWorks Contributor John Larmer offers 5 tips for teachers, including rubrics, formative assessment, time for revision, authenticity, and a culture of quality.
General PBL
Letter to My First-Year Teacher Self – from a Retiring PBL Veteran
The importance of building relationships with students, creating a classroom community, and pursuing PBL.
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How to Get Higher-Quality Student Work in PBL
PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer offers 5 tips for teachers, including rubrics, formative assessment, time for revision, authenticity, and a culture of quality.
Preparing Learners for the Test and Beyond: PBL and High-Stakes Assessments
A common concern we hear from educators as they begin to make the transition to Project Based Learning is: “What about the test?”
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PBL + SEL + Trauma-Informed Teaching for the Times We’re In
5 tips for supporting students holistically in Project Based Learning.
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A Message for PBL School Leaders During the Pandemic & School Closures
Advice from PBLWorks staff who work with our school and district partners about how to keep a PBL initiative going.