How-to Tips and Tools
Supporting PBL with a Design Thinking Framework
How the 5 steps in the design thinking process align with PBL—and how making students aware of it could help them in job interviews.
PBL Blog
Real-World or Role-Play: The Career Academy Test for PBL
I started my education journey at a career academy as a social studies teacher, and I came in with a pretty predictable plan
Recent Blogs
General PBL
The Gift of Time That PBL Allows
A teacher reflects on how to make students aware of their learning journey, and on the importance of giving them the time to enjoy learning.
General PBL
The Latest PBL News & Views: August 16, 2019
PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer recommends recent articles, blog posts, research studies, and other resources related to Project Based Learning.
Gold Standard PBL: Teaching Practices
Sharing Your Project Based Teaching Practices with Students
How to make our teaching transparent by having students identify learning goals, build a PBL culture, and coach and assess each other.
General PBL
Measuring Student Success Skills – Critical Thinking, Part 1: Design
The first in a series of posts, summarizing research-based guidance for designing projects for critical thinking.
How-to Tips and Tools
Supercharging HQPBL: Accelerating Project Based Learning With Digital Tools
A list of tech tools teachers and students can use to support each of the 6 criteria in the Framework for High Quality PBL.
How-to Tips and Tools
3 Routines & Protocols to Help Your Students Start the Year Ready for PBL
A high school teacher explains how she scaffolds students’ academic conversations, collaboration skills, and understanding of “productive struggle.”
PBL and Equity
Making PBL Work in an Alternative Education School
A school leader tells how he worked with teachers to create a PBL program that engages and meets the needs of a transient student population.
How-to Tips and Tools
How to Begin Building a PBL Culture Right from the Start
Ideas for developing relationships, co-creating norms, practicing protocols and establishing routines, and designing a classroom conducive to PBL.