General PBL
A Parent’s Perspective on Montessori & HQPBL
A parent describes a school visit that led her to see parallels in two pedagogical approaches.
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How-to Tips and Tools
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New PBL Strategy Guides Are Here!
We’re excited to share a set of brand-new Strategy Guides, resources designed to spark ideas and provide practical tools that make
Recent Blogs
General PBL
Design Thinking & PBL: Why Laura McBain is BIE’s 2018 PBL Champion
How design thinking at Stanford's d.school shares common features with Gold Standard PBL.
How-to Tips and Tools
Making PBL Feel Less Foreign to Foreign Language Teachers
How to avoid 2 common traps and find the key to good project: authenticity.
How-to Tips and Tools
Overcoming a Math Challenge Using the Process Communication Model
How a teacher coached a young “math person” who struggled with the open-endedness of a project about starting a business.
PBL and Equity
Two Huge Ways Critical Pedagogy Can Inspire Your PBL Classroom
Ask students to "deal critically with reality" and "discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."
How-to Tips and Tools
Making PBL Observer-Friendly
3 ways to help administrators, community members, or other teachers understand what they see when visiting a PBL classroom.
General PBL
Connecting the New High Quality PBL Framework & Gold Standard PBL
A comparison of the distinctions and alignment between two ways of describing PBL.
How-to Tips and Tools
PBL vs Product-Based Learning
How to avoid putting too much time and emphasis on creating the product in a project, instead of focusing on what students are learning.
Projects in Action
Powerful PBL Ingredients: Authenticity, Co-Teaching, Community Connection, & Iteration
A project with the driving question, "How can we identify problems and create practical solutions to support communities impacted by natural disasters?"