Award marks second for TEACH since it launched this summer
Novato, CA (DATE, 2025) – PBLWorks TEACH™ was named a winner in the Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Back to School 2025 – marking the second award win for the PBL curriculum product since its launch in June, 2025. TEACH won in the Secondary Education category, and it won a Tech & Learning Best of Show Award at ISTELive 25 earlier this year.
TEACH is a web-based application that provides teachers with access to Gold Standard Project Based Learning (PBL) project units for middle school math, science, English Language Arts, and social studies. Curriculum units for elementary and high school are coming in early in 2026.
“We created TEACH to help more schools and districts implement Gold Standard Project Based Learning and earning this second award further validates that we are filling a critical need for teachers and administrators who are seeking to start or expand their PBL initiatives,” said PBLWorks CEO Bob Lenz. “We are already seeing teachers having amazing success with TEACH, and we look forward to working with schools this year to bring PBL to even more students through TEACH.”
TEACH was created by The Buck Institute for Education (dba PBLWorks), a national provider of curriculum and professional development for high-quality Project Based Learning (PBL), in response to a demand for ready-to-use PBL curriculum. It leverages PBLWorks’ deep expertise and decades of experience to provide robust, engaging, standards-aligned PBL projects complete with step-by-step instructions, embedded professional learning, and downloadable resources and handouts. TEACH also gives users access to an online community for connection, collaboration, and continuous learning with other PBL teachers and experts in the field. The Community provides a space for educators to exchange ideas, ask questions, and get practical support.
The Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence celebrate outstanding products that offer schools versatility, value, and solutions to specific problems to support innovative and effective teaching and learning. Judged by a panel of industry experts, winning an Award of Excellence is more than just acknowledgement from Tech & Learning’s editors, it is a showcase of which products are truly going above and beyond to contribute to the education sector.
“The 2025 awards welcomed an abundance of high-quality entries,” said the Tech & Learning awards editorial team. “Our panel of industry experts judged the winning products and solutions to be of the highest standard in supporting effective teaching and learning practices when moving into the new school year. Every winner should be immensely proud of their accomplishments - a well-deserved congratulations from the entire Tech & Learning awards team.”
To view the full list of winners, visit https://www.techlearning.com/news/tech-and-learning-announces-the-2025-winners-of-its-best-for-back-to-school-contest. For information or to schedule a demo of TEACH, visit www.pblworks.org/teach
About PBLWorks TEACH™ PBLWorks
TEACH™ is a web-based application for K-12 schools that want an easier way to implement Project Based Learning (PBL) to ignite student engagement and deeper learning in classrooms. TEACH makes PBL easier to implement by providing ready-to-use, standards-aligned project units for math, science, ELA, and social studies.
PBLWorks TEACH™ is a trademark of PBLWorks.
About PBLWorks
The Buck Institute for Education/PBLWorks believes that all students, especially Black and Brown students, should have access to high-quality Project Based Learning to deepen their learning and achieve success in college, career, and life. Its focus is on building the capacity of teachers to design and facilitate high-quality Project Based Learning, and on supporting school and system leaders in creating the conditions for these teachers to succeed with all students.