PBL Blog

PBL World Participant Spotlight Series

Meet Claudett Edie, a Library Media Specialist at Leestown Middle School in Lexington, KY, who participated in PBL World last

How-to Tips and Tools

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.

General PBL

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

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

How to make our teaching transparent by having students identify learning goals, build a PBL culture, and coach and assess each other.

General PBL

The first in a series of posts, summarizing research-based guidance for designing projects for critical thinking.

How-to Tips and 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

A high school teacher explains how she scaffolds students’ academic conversations, collaboration skills, and understanding of “productive struggle.”

PBL and Equity

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

Ideas for developing relationships, co-creating norms, practicing protocols and establishing routines, and designing a classroom conducive to PBL.

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