Projects in Action
Lesson Learned: I Needed to Engage Students in a Voter Engagement Project
How using a design thinking approach led to a better project for students and teachers.
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PBLWorks Welcomes Three New Leaders to Its Board of Directors
At PBLWorks, we know that meaningful change happens when leaders with diverse perspectives, deep expertise, and a shared
Recent Blogs
How-to Tips and Tools
3 Tips for Literacy in Project Based Learning: Challenges and Opportunities
3 tips for supporting students during a project who need to build reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.
Gold Standard PBL: Teaching Practices
Listening to Students Changed My Project Plans (for the Better)
How a PBL teacher learned a lesson about student voice and relinquishing control to follow students’ passions.
General PBL
Student Pushback Made Me a Better PBL Teacher
How a 9th grade history teacher re-thought his approach to the subject and a student created change in her school.
Projects in Action
Building a Strong Foundation: A Home-Design Math Project
A 5th grade teacher creates a project that surpassed expectations.
Projects in Action
I’m Your Biggest Fan: A Fan Fiction Writing Project
An ELA teacher creates a new PBL unit for her 8th graders, and sees the results.
General PBL
PBL World Keynote: Zaretta Hammond on Culturally Responsive Teaching
The author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain will be joining us in June 2020.
How-to Tips and Tools
Why I Scrum: Using a Project Management Tool for PBL
A teacher explains how he and his students keep track of multi-step projects.
How-to Tips and Tools
Measuring Student Success Skills – Critical Thinking, Part 2: Teaching
3 research-based insights to help guide the teaching of critical thinking in PBL.