This past weekend at the 21st Century Learning Conference in Hong Kong, educators shared insights and stories around how they are re-thinking and...

The Lock Pick Challenge When 34 eager 15-16 year olds stepped foot inside One Stone’s doors, they weren’t lectured or debriefed on the rules. They...

Does STEM scare you? It scared me for a long time. I was that guy who put IKEA furniture together… backwards. When the oil light came on in the old...

In my work with teachers and project- based practitioners, I like to use a tool called the PBL Seesaw to help them reflect on the experience. Rather...

My new Band Just recently I formed a new band. It’s me and 2 other guys. I’m on keys and vocals. Armando, an amiable, lanky 16 year old kid is on...

Date: April 30th, 2019 It’s almost May and I imagine you are counting down the days until the end of the school year. Home stretch isn’t very far...

When working with teachers and school leaders new to project- based learning, one of the most frequent questions I get asked is: “How to I come up...

So there's this really famous Ted Talk by Ken Robinson entitled, "Do schools kill Creativity?" I'm sure most of you have seen it. It's considered to...

April 14th, 2019 Last week I witnessed magicians at work. And I wasn’t at a magic show. I was miles away from civilization, on a small island to...

That 'Dirty LIttle Word' Every time I lead a PBL workshop, the participants always dread Day Two. It’s the day we talk about that ‘dirty little...

Yesterday, at the end of a PBL training with three schools, I asked participants to reflect on their learning that day. Here’s a comment that stood...

My Epic Failure with PBL- A first hand account We were five weeks into our civilization project with no idea when we would exhibit our work....

Have you assigned projects to students that you have never done yourself? I have. When I first began as a project- based teacher, I had very little...

How do you grow and develop your students? Are you the patient observer; a gentle guide on the side who approaches learning with the same wonderment...