Build Teacher Capacity, One Coaching Cycle at a Time
We partner with instructional coaches to sharpen the skills, tools, and coaching moves that help teachers grow into confident PBL practitioners—session by session, classroom by classroom.
Build Teacher Capacity, One Coaching Cycle at a Time
We partner with instructional coaches to sharpen the skills, tools, and coaching moves that help teachers grow into confident PBL practitioners—session by session, classroom by classroom.
This page speaks directly to instructional coaches who support teachers through PBL implementation. It leads with PBLWorks' deep experience in Project Based Learning, its library of research-based tools and rubrics coaches can use in observation and feedback conversations, and its commitment to ongoing partnership as coaches build their own practice. From there, the page outlines a coaching-specific workshop pathway (from entry-level to advanced) and points to resources coaches can put to work right away.
Why Instructional Coaches Partner with Us
Deep PBL Experience
We've spent decades studying and supporting high-quality Project Based Learning—and we know what strong coaching conversations about PBL actually sound like. You'll walk away with frameworks and language you can use in your very next coaching cycle.
Flexible Solutions
Every coach juggles teachers at different stages of PBL readiness, often with limited time to devote to any one of them. We help you build a coaching approach that flexes to meet teachers where they are, whether you're supporting one classroom or an entire building.
High-Quality Tools, Ready-to-Use
You don't have to build your coaching materials from scratch. Our research-based rubrics, planning guides, and checklists—grounded in the same Gold Standard PBL framework used in classrooms nationwide—give you proven tools you can bring straight into your next coaching conversation.
Services for Instructional Coaches
Start with an Entry-level Workshop
Facilitate PBL - a two-day workshop; choose this workshop if you will be working mostly with teachers who want a ready-to-use TEACH project to start
Design PBL - our three-day foundational workshop; choose this workshop if you will be working mostly with teachers who want to design their own projects
Elevate Your Coaching Practice
One you have taken either Facilitate PBL or Design PBL (or PBL 101), you can participate in our Coach PBL workshop, a 3-day experience to elevate your coaching practice.
You will deepen your expertise as a PBL instructional coach by creating a PBL Coaching Toolkit to help you support teachers with the implementation of Gold Standard PBL.
Go further with Deepen PBL
When you're ready, round out your PBL professional learning with some advanced workshops.
Consider one of these three-day workshops:
An Integrated Approach to PBL Implementation
High-quality Project Based Learning requires more than vision—it requires alignment. TEACH provides a ready-to-use PBL curriculum that helps schools get started quickly while creating consistency across classrooms.
As staff change and new educators join, TEACH supports sustainability through shared structures, common language, and embedded guidance. When paired with professional learning aligned to the curriculum teachers use every day, this integrated approach helps school leaders scale PBL with confidence and maintain quality over time.
Resources for Instructional Coaches
PBL Handbooks
PBL Handbooks for All Grade Levels
For instructional coaches, these handbooks offer practical, classroom-tested guidance grounded in the PBLWorks Gold Standard PBL model. Written by PBL experts and teachers, the handbooks walk you through the Essential Project Design Elements and Project Based Teaching Practices so you can design and run high-quality projects. Available for Elementary and Middle/High School.
Evidence Matters
School PBL Evidence Framework Toolkit
Tracking effective implementation of your PBL efforts is critical for long-term success. Download this toolkit to help your efforts throughout your school's PBL journey, from readiness to student outcomes. This student-centered framework contains easy-to-follow steps, including protocols to support reflection, planning, and celebration.
Talk to Our Team
Our team can help you design the right path for your goals and timeline.