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.
PBL Blog
From Skills to Purpose: How Project Based Learning Brings Literacy to Life
“Literacy development has always been connected to identity, skills, intellect, criticality, and joy. When we reduce it to only
Recent Blogs
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.
General PBL
Why High School Students Deserve Extended Challenges
Getting Smart's Tom Vander Ark argues for PBL units that tackle real-world problems, instead of typical worksheet-based and test-prep instruction.
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.
How-to Tips and Tools
PBL School Collaboration: 3 Strategies for School Leaders
A principal explains how she uses professional learning communities, models PBL practices in staff meetings, and promotes reflection based on student work.
Choosing Progressive Education for Modern Learning
A new book on how education urgently needs to make the shift to John Dewey’s ideas about how people actually learn.