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UPCOMING WEBINARS
Explore our Fall Webinar Series!
Absenteeism to Engagement: Strategies That Work
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 at 4pm ET
Student absenteeism is one of the biggest challenges facing schools today—and it’s directly tied to student engagement. In this webinar, a panel of district and school leaders will share the strategies that helped them make school a place students want to be. From rethinking learning experiences through Project Based Learning to creating a culture of belonging, you’ll gain practical insights you can take back to your own context to strengthen student engagement and attendance.
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Building Stronger Schools Through Community Partnership
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at 4 pm ET
Schools thrive when families and communities are true partners in student success. In this webinar, you’ll hear from a panel of school and district leaders who have built meaningful, sustainable partnerships with families and community leaders. They’ll share the strategies and mindsets that helped transform their schools into partnership-driven environments—where collaboration fuels student learning, trust, and long-term success.
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Leadership in Action: From Mindset to Movement Toward PBL for All
Thursday, December 4, 2025 at 4pm ET
What does it take to lead schools and districts where Project Based Learning thrives? In this webinar, Bob Lenz and Lisa Mireles—co-authors of Project Based Learning for All: A Guide for Leaders—will moderate a conversation with three leaders featured in the book. They’ll share real-world stories and strategies that helped them navigate challenges, build momentum, and create the conditions for lasting success with PBL. Whether you’re just beginning or scaling PBL across your system, you’ll gain practical insights to strengthen your own leadership journey.
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Keep kids engaged in the joy of learning this summer
Parents and caregivers, join this highly interactive webinar to learn about This Teachable Moment: Engaging Our Kids in the Joy of Learning, a new eBook written by PBLWorks for parents and caregivers who are seeking practical solutions to keep kids learning, growing, and discovering during school shutdowns, over the summer, and beyond.
7 Tech Tools for Supporting Online PBL
There are a lot of technology tools out there that can support high quality Project Based Learning (PBL). Which ones work well for online learning? Join us to learn about 7 tech tools aligned to PBLWorks’ 7 Essential Project Design Elements.
How to Adapt a Gold Standard Project for Online Learning
Teachers across the nation and world are trying to figure out how to engage students in intellectually challenging and meaningful work online. Join us to learn how to adapt a Gold Standard project for online learning.
Solutions for Sticky Problems of Practice for Facilitating PBL Online
What are the top challenges teachers are encountering as they design and facilitate PBL online? Learn practical solutions for the stickiest problems of practice.
How Can High Quality PBL Create Equity in the Classroom?
How does Gold Standard PBL and technology help achieve equitable outcomes in our classrooms? Join us as we explore how bold educators can activate change to foster equitable learning environments that better equip all learners to reach their academic, vocational, and personal aspirations.
Stories from the field: Teacher insights from facilitating PBL remotely
What can we learn from teachers who are facilitating PBL online right now? Join us to hear directly from six teachers in the field. Each of our 3 sessions below are unique, featuring two teachers sharing their experiences in each webinar. So get the recorded session of one or more!
SESSION #1
Hear directly from two teachers about what they learned from facilitating the Happy Plants project designed for newcomer students and the COVID-19 project designed for health sciences.
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SESSION #2
Hear directly from two teachers about what they learned from facilitating the Outsiders Playlist project, adapted from a PBLWorks’ project card, and the Visual Art Show project designed to support students through the pandemic.
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SESSION #3
Hear directly from two teachers about what they learned from facilitating the Red Wolves project designed for science and the Hershey project designed for marketing.
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How Students Experience High Quality PBL Online
What do we know about how students experience PBL online? Join us to learn about the HQPBL Framework and how you can use it to design and assess a student’s experience in PBL (including online).