How-to Tips and Tools
The Ultimate Team Work Management Tool: Kanban Boards
A detailed look at a tool for helping students manage themselves and their work in a project.
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Leadership
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Reflection: A Key Ingredient to Successful Implementation of PBL
Every educator and leader driving the shift to Project Based Learning knows that pausing to reflect is paramount to the long-term
Recent Blogs
PBL and Equity
A Passion Project on Down’s Syndrome Has Lasting Effects
After one student's project generates interest and empathy among her peers, a 5th grade class takes action to make their school more inclusive for students with disabilities.
How-to Tips and Tools
Keeping Your Eye on the Learning Prize in PBL
Four tips to help ensure a focus on student learning during a PBL unit: unpack standards and success skills, specify learning targets, focus walkthroughs on learning.
General PBL
A Project Runs Through It
Reflections from a rafting trip on how running a PBL unit is like a running a river.
How-to Tips and Tools
My Plans for PBL Leadership in 2019
A high school principal explains how he plans to lead his PBL school, with 6 questions to guide PBL implementation.
TEACHER STORY - 8TH GRADE SCIENCE
PBL Engaging the Disengaged
Teacher Lacrecia Terrance achieves outstanding results with an authentic, relevant project.
STUDENT STORY - HIGH SCHOOL
Project Based Learning and AP Physics
Student Jack Brunell reveals that the magic of the project-based philosophy that drove his course was in its ability to ensure that the learning achieved would not be exclusively theoretical.
ELEMENTARY CASE STUDY
Project Based Learning in Hawaii
PBL infused with native Hawaiian language and culture provides students with what they need to be successful now and in the future.
STUDENT VOICES
PBL for Middle Schoolers, in their own words
Middle schoolers from Novi Community Schools District in Michigan answer a simple question: "Why do you like PBL?"