PBL Blog

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Why and How Our PBL 101 Workshop Is Getting a Refresh

New features for our signature introductory PBL workshop, including the importance of knowing your students, three key levers for promoting equity in PBL, and a new project library and online learning platform for follow-up support.

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Design Thinking and a Bias Towards Action with PBL

A continuation high school principal tells how students used design thinking to reimagine the high school classroom.

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Learners Ask 4 Deep Questions, PBL Provides Opportunities to Answer Them

How PBL can help answer questions of identity, capacity, agency, and well-being.

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10 PBL Resolutions for 2018

PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer offers a list of suggestions for teachers and school leaders to improve the practice and expand the use of PBL.

How-to Tips and Tools

5 Strategies for Making Project Work Time More Productive

How to prepare students for working in teams, train and utilize team leaders, structure team meetings, and plan opportunities for feedback.

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My Favorite Projects of 2017

PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer offers a list of various K-12 projects, with links to blog posts about them.

PBL Is Not Just For Talented and Gifted Students

PBLWorks National Faculty Member Andre Daughty rebuts assertions that PBL is not for all students.

How-to Tips and Tools

PBL & Introverts: 6 Modifications to Bring out the Best in All Students

Drawing from the book, Quiet Power, a school leader offers reflections and advice to teachers for an inclusive PBL classroom.

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Gold Standard PBL: Teaching Practices

5 Tips to Improve Your PBL Teaching

Basic “teacher moves” that can help teachers improve their PBL practice.

PBL and Equity

Project- and Problem-Based Learning: Whose Problem Is It?

A report on the PBL World keynote address by a leader of Big Picture Learning, calling for educational equity and authenticity to students' lives.