PBL Blog

At the “iOnTheFuture” conference in Australia, PBLWorks’ John Larmer and Suzie Boss delivered a keynote with a reassuring message about researcher John Hattie’s findings on PBL.

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.

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.

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

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

A list of tech tools teachers and students can use to support each of the 6 criteria in the Framework for High Quality PBL.

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

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.