PBL and Equity
Curb Cuts and Texting Might Change the Way You Design Projects
How designing projects for the “extreme user” leads to greater accessibility for all students.
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#FindYourProject - How National Parks Inspire Amazing Gold Standard Projects
With more than 1,500 attendees at last year's PBL World conference , luck, perhaps providence, connected me with West Virginia
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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.
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7 Moves to Advance Racial Equity Through PBL
How PBL teachers can support educational equity for Black and Latinx students when designing and implementing Gold Standard PBL.
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65 Years After Brown v Board: Our Still-Segregated Schools Impede Equity (& PBL)
How school segregation leads to inequitable outcomes for students, including access to PBL instead of “drill and kill” instructional methods.
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What You Can Do to Advance Culturally Responsive PBL Practice
PBLWorks Director of Partnership Development Dinah Becton-Consuegra explains three moves PBL teachers can make to transform their practice to be more culturally responsive.
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The Alliance for Excellent Education’s Equity Campaign: 65 Years Since Brown vs. Board
PBLWorks Chief Executive Officer Bob Lenz announces our support for a campaign to honor and extend the legacy of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown vs. Board of Education.
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Projects for Women's History Month
A PBLWorks National Faculty member and high school teacher tells how she created a women’s studies course, with authentic projects linked to current events and suggested resources.
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The Pedagogy of Poverty and its Antidote: PBL
PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer recaps a classic article from 1991 about urban education, race, and control-based schooling—and finds parallels between the author’s call for “good teaching” and Project Based Learning.
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A Passion Project on Down’s Syndrome Has Lasting Effects
After one student's project generates interest and empathy among her peers, a 5th grade class takes action to make their school more inclusive for students with disabilities.