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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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
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.
How-to Tips and Tools
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.
How-to Tips and Tools
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.
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.
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?”
How-to Tips and Tools
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.
How-to Tips and Tools
School-Wide PBL Exhibitions: Not Just About the Students
A school principal offers advice on how to make sure a public event to showcase students’ project work is beneficial for teachers and parents.
How-to Tips and Tools
PBL + SEL + Trauma-Informed Teaching for the Times We’re In
5 tips for supporting students holistically in Project Based Learning.