Projects in Action
The Lead2Feed Student Leadership Program
Middle and high school students find a need in their community, then plan and execute an action project that aligns with the HQPBL Framework.
PBL Blog
How Project Based Learning Helped My Multilingual Students Find Their Voice
What happens when we invite students to share the most personal parts of their lives through schoolwork? Can learning that centers
Recent Blogs
How-to Tips and Tools
Overcoming 3 Pitfalls in Planning Interdisciplinary Projects
How a team of high school teachers calendars their time and collaborates to create successful PBL units for their students.
How-to Tips and Tools
Organizing a Parent PBL Night
How a school introduces parents to PBL by having them experience a "project slice" activity.
General PBL
Transforming School to Transform the World: Paradigms of Liberatory Interdependence
Parallels between PBL and pre-industrial agriculture, and how PBL can help create "reciprocal, relational, regenerative communities."
How-to Tips and Tools
PBL and Literacy: A Perfect Match for Elementary Schools
A thorough look at how reading and writing goals can be integrated with with other standards in projects.
Gold Standard PBL: Teaching Practices
Project Based Teaching Practice Spotlight: Engage and Coach
How teachers play the role of coach during a project, with an excerpt from the book Project Based Teaching.
Gold Standard PBL: Teaching Practices
Building PBL Culture by Bringing Yourself
The importance of relationships in PBL teaching, and how teachers can form closer connections to students.
How-to Tips and Tools
How to Get Started Planning a Full Year of PBL
A middle school teacher explains how she uses her curriculum as more than just a checklist, by combining literacy goals with concepts from other subjects in her projects.
Projects in Action
Four Ways to Think about Authenticity - Through the Lens of Gold Standard PBL Videos
How to make learning experiences “real” or “real-world” for students.