How-to Tips and Tools
Supporting PBL with a Design Thinking Framework
How the 5 steps in the design thinking process align with PBL—and how making students aware of it could help them in job interviews.
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
General PBL
The Gift of Time That PBL Allows
A teacher reflects on how to make students aware of their learning journey, and on the importance of giving them the time to enjoy learning.
General PBL
The Latest PBL News & Views: August 16, 2019
PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer recommends recent articles, blog posts, research studies, and other resources related to Project Based Learning.
Gold Standard PBL: Teaching Practices
Sharing Your Project Based Teaching Practices with Students
How to make our teaching transparent by having students identify learning goals, build a PBL culture, and coach and assess each other.
General PBL
Measuring Student Success Skills – Critical Thinking, Part 1: Design
The first in a series of posts, summarizing research-based guidance for designing projects for critical thinking.
How-to Tips and Tools
Supercharging HQPBL: Accelerating Project Based Learning With Digital Tools
A list of tech tools teachers and students can use to support each of the 6 criteria in the Framework for High Quality PBL.
How-to Tips and Tools
3 Routines & Protocols to Help Your Students Start the Year Ready for PBL
A high school teacher explains how she scaffolds students’ academic conversations, collaboration skills, and understanding of “productive struggle.”
PBL and Equity
Making PBL Work in an Alternative Education School
A school leader tells how he worked with teachers to create a PBL program that engages and meets the needs of a transient student population.
How-to Tips and Tools
How to Begin Building a PBL Culture Right from the Start
Ideas for developing relationships, co-creating norms, practicing protocols and establishing routines, and designing a classroom conducive to PBL.