How-to Tips and Tools
It Takes a System for High Quality PBL
How school district leaders work on coherence, culture, capacity building, and continuous improvement.
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
General PBL
Traditional School Imperils Kids; They Need to Be Innovators
Ted Dintersmith, producer of the film "Most Likely to Succeed," calls for radical change in our education system.
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Using the Need to Know List to Support Gold Standard PBL Teaching
How a list of students' questions for inquiry should be used at the beginning, middle, and end of a project.
An Appeal to Teachers: Consider a Pre-Planned Vacation
I have a friend whose parents were not the traveling types. Not that they didn’t love the idea of traveling to new lands and
General PBL
How My Project-Based School Prepared Me for Columbia
A reflection by a recent college graduate on how her PBL-using high school gave her an advantage over peers who had only experienced traditional instruction.
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PBL in the Mirror: Planning for Student Reflection
WHY should I plan for reflection? By definition, reflection is serious thought and consideration about an idea or experience. In
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Resource List: English Learners in PBL
Articles, tools, and rubrics to help K-12 teachers learn how to design and facilitate PBL units that meet the needs of English Learners.
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7 Tips for Coaching PBL Teachers
An instructional coach tells how he supports PBL teachers, from building the right culture to setting goals to using PLCs.
Projects in Action
An Authentic Writing Project for English Learners
A project in which high school students studied a social justice issue of their choice and published their writing online.