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.
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
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.
How-to Tips and Tools
How to Make the Most Out of Experts When You Involve Them in Projects
Four tips for PBL teachers for how to communicate with, support, and involve guest experts in projects.
Projects in Action
Scrapping It When It’s “Not Cool”: The Importance of Rethinking
An instructional coach and a teacher planned projects for 7th and 8th grade, then learned a lesson about what made one much more engaging for students.
How-to Tips and Tools
Start the Year with a Project, or Build Skills First?
What to consider before launching the first project in the school year, and how to build students’ skills to prepare them for PBL.
How-to Tips and Tools
From Podcasts to PSA’s: Designing Projects with Recorded Products
A PBL teacher suggests what to consider in each of the four phases of a project, and how to scaffold the process for students.