I began the week with the question What is Real PBL? In my view, it’s about to get very real — in fact, possibly too real for comfort. Here’s what
Our superpower is ethical dilemmas, what’s yours? As teachers of middle school students, we discovered that embedding a real-life problem into our unit of work gave students a way to
In the first article for PBL Week, I made the argument that PBL offers educators a path to transform education from a test-based enterprise into a strengths-based approach that supports
In the U.S. educational system, July is always a good month to take time off, relax a bit, and reflect on the coming academic year. I know many of you
Typically, how many labs do you do in your science unit? Usually, I have my students do one or two in a unit before we move on to the next
June 25, 2021 After being sent home last March the world has shifted dramatically. The assumptions that were held as true seem old and antiquated. Educators have been on the
The primary reason I began to transition my Humanities classes to a Project-Based Learning program was to improve student engagement. I was struggling to keep my students motivated and working
One of the enduring conversations PBL educators have about project-based learning is how to differentiate a project from PBL. One distinguishing marker—probably the best differentiator—is that PBL uses a Driving
Have you ever sat in a PD session and the presenter talked about how you should differentiate, but you said in your head… No Way! They are crazy! It all
May 26, 2021 I was worn out. Period after period, in the library with my sixth-grade Humanities classes, the effort to keep students on task and productive while researching was