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PBL Spotlight Project: Re-Designing School to be More Inclusive and ‘Kid Friendly’
The Background After 6 months of lockdown, Luke and Peter, Primary Coordinators at the Cambridge International School of Slovakia wanted to offer...
PBL Spotlight Experience: Student- Led Community Projects Increase Citizenship and Social Responsibility in Medford
Background Imagine students across all ages working to address global problems such as opioid deaths, hatred, prejudice, addiction, bullying, mass...
PBL Case Study: Building Sustainability, One Student Project at a Time
Background You ever watch the film Waterworld? I just watched it again on Netflix. Beyond marvelling at the fact that Kevin Costner had flippers for...
Project Chaos vs. Project Harmony: 10 tips to Ensure the Latter
It's 2:30 pm on a Friday afternoon during 'Project Time.' Glue guns are running hot and leaking onto the floor from all the power outlets. The noise...
Project Plan vs. Project Reality
It's a late Wednesday evening and my facilitator team has just put the final touches on the 'principles of entrepreneurship' project. Students will...
PBL Case Study #14: Keeping Student-Led Community Service and Action Projects during CoVid
The Background When CoVid-19 first sank its teeth in last March, Bill and Alex, project mentors and coordinators of student-led Community Service...
Project-Based Learning Improves Student Performance and Increases Equity
Great news. The verdict is out. And not that it should surprise any of us, especially from what we have witnessed first hand with students in our...
PBL CoVid Case Study #12: ‘Earning Advance Course Credit Through Designing Games’
How do you help High School students receive lost credit for classes they missed because of CoVid? This was the question PBL Innovators Denise and...
PBL Case Study #11: ‘Planet Podcast’ Early Years Project
This PBL transformation story is shared in its entirety by Sara Lev, an expert early years practitioner... The Background This is my 16th year as a...
PBL CoVid Case Study #10: ‘Who Killed the Teacher?’
The Background Like most math teachers, David Perez, an Integrated Math III teacher at Colegio Decroly Americano in Guetamala was finding it hard to...
PBL Case Study #9: Exploring cuisine, dialects and low-age education in China
THE BACKGROUND Andrew Morrissey, a grade 10 Individuals and Societies IB teacher at Beijing City International School was finding his "Causes of...
PBL Case Study #8: Building Community Through Community Gardens
THE BACKGROUND The community garden project started with a simple question: What impact can growing our own gardens have on our community? Lua...
PBL Case Study #7: Scrapping the mandated online curriculum to build holiday gifts from wood scraps
The holidays were fast approaching and Emily Burk, a Secondary Makerspace leader was wondering how to keep her students engaged. Her 9th-12th grade...
The IDEAL Hybrid Schedule: 5 Tips
After a few conversations with school leaders across East Asia, I learned that the #1 thing keeping them up at night is configuring the master...
Winter Break Reading List
If you are anything like me, curling up with a good book next to a warm heater or fireplace is the ideal way to spend winter break. And while I...
PBL Case Study #6: The Mock Election Project
Background As the presidential election neared its final stages back in October, Kristen Dickey's 5th grade students had a plethora of questions:...
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