How-to Tips and Tools
Using the Need to Know List as a Planning & Assessment Tool
Tips for sorting students' questions at project launch, and using the list to track progress during a project.
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How One Magnet School Built Its Identity Around Project Based Learning
Borton shows how a deep commitment to PBL and systems thinking can drive equity, attract families, and create lasting success. We
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Putting PBL into Practice: The Workshop Model
How to provide structure within a project with a framework for inquiry, drafting of work, and reflection.
PBL and Equity
Yes, You Really Can Do Authentic Projects with Limited Resources
The principal of a PBL school in a low-income community explains how he leverages local experts and audiences.
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A Parent’s Perspective on Montessori & HQPBL
A parent describes a school visit that led her to see parallels in two pedagogical approaches.
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Design Thinking & PBL: Why Laura McBain is BIE’s 2018 PBL Champion
How design thinking at Stanford's d.school shares common features with Gold Standard PBL.
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Making PBL Feel Less Foreign to Foreign Language Teachers
How to avoid 2 common traps and find the key to good project: authenticity.
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Overcoming a Math Challenge Using the Process Communication Model
How a teacher coached a young “math person” who struggled with the open-endedness of a project about starting a business.
PBL and Equity
Two Huge Ways Critical Pedagogy Can Inspire Your PBL Classroom
Ask students to "deal critically with reality" and "discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."
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Making PBL Observer-Friendly
3 ways to help administrators, community members, or other teachers understand what they see when visiting a PBL classroom.