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Making PBL Easier: Real Teachers Share Real Impact with PBLWorks TEACH™

How two math educators are transforming learning with project-based teaching with our ready-to-use PBL curriculum units. PBLWorks

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.

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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.

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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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Making PBL Easier: Real Teachers Share Real Impact with PBLWorks TEACH™

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