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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

Gold Standard PBL: Design Elements

Gold Standard PBL: Public Product

PBLWorks National Faculty members discuss the importance of making students' work public, both during a project and at the end, and give examples of connecting with outside experts.

How-to Tips and Tools

Project Based Learning with Students with Disabilities

Teacher Randi Downs reflects on her school's initial exploration of PBL as a vehicle to engage students with disabilities as teachers prepare them for career, college, and civic life.

4 Truths About Effective PBL Leadership

BIE Director of Implementation Jennifer Cruz writes about highly effective PBL leadership.

Circle diagram showing all elements of PBLWorks Gold Standard Teaching Practices

Gold Standard PBL: Teaching Practices

Gold Standard PBL: Project Based Teaching Practices

An overview of the 7 Project Based Teaching Practices in PBLWorks' model for Gold Standard PBL.

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How-to Tips and Tools

Using Project Based Learning in Physical Education

How to design projects that involve physical activity, compelling problems, open-ended questions, and peer feedback.

Book cover of The Project Method by William Heard Kilpatrick

Gold Standard PBL: Teaching Practices

The Importance of Project Based Teaching

How the work of progressive education pioneers John Dewey and William Kirkpatrick led to PBLWorks' model for Gold Standard PBL.

three young student working on their garden PBL project

How-to Tips and Tools

Resource List: Collaboration in PBL

Articles, videos, and rubrics to help K-12 teachers learn how to build teams and manage student collaboration in PBL units.

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How Can We Teach and Assess Creativity and Innovation in PBL?

On lists of 21st century competencies, there used to be 3 C’s - critical thinking, collaboration, and communication - but now

General PBL

Project Based Learning vs. Problem Based Learning vs. XBL

PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer clarifies common confusion about various forms of inquiry-based learning and the "two PBLs."

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Real-World or Role-Play: The Career Academy Test for PBL

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