General PBL
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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PBL Champions
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Four Champions, One Commitment: What It Takes to Create Lasting Change Through Project Based Learning
At PBL World 2026, we celebrated four remarkable examples of leadership through our annual PBL Champions Awards. While each
Recent Blogs
General PBL
Learners Ask 4 Deep Questions, PBL Provides Opportunities to Answer Them
How PBL can help answer questions of identity, capacity, agency, and well-being.
General PBL
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.
How-to Tips and Tools
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.
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.