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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:...
PBL Case Study #4: Creating Eco-Friendly Busses
Story of PBL Transformation: Creating Eco-Friendly Busses When I first met Hirotake Wang as a facilitator/ co- founder of Futures Academy at The...
It’s Not About the Grade, It’s About the Growth: 5 New Mindsets for Hybrid Assessment
It’s the late afternoon with the sun just beginning to make its descent on the horizon. The foreign language teacher sits at her desk in a cramped...
PBL Case Study #5: Improving Social and Emotional Well Being During CoVid
How do you ensure the mental, social and emotional well- being of students when you can't even see them in person? This is the challenge Mark...
Eight Ways to Foster Whole School Innovation During CoVid: And Create more Student-Centered Learning Environments
I am sure your plate is overflowing during this unprecedented time of CoVid. But I'm also sure as the innovative, forward thinking leader you are,...
Managing Projects in a Virtual/ Hybrid Environment: 5 Tools That Create Independent, Empowered Learners
Do you have a hard time managing student projects? You aren't alone. Projects are messy. Unlike traditional learning, they don't follow a neat,...
Peer Coaching: 6 Ways to Create a Culture of Coaching and Reflection at Your School
I vividly remember the first time I was observed on that warm, sunny Wednesday morning at 9 am. I was a fresh, 22 year old bright eyed and bubbly...
Five Anti-Racist Project Ideas: Discuss Authentic Issues, Grow Community, and Build Empathy
We are living in truly unprecedented times. A pandemic has impacted all corners of the globe. Natural disasters have emerged in the most uncommon...
Supporting Student Centered Learning from a School-Wide Level: 10 school shifts to create authentic, meaningful learning experiences
As most schools re-start or have already re-started, many are asking deeper questions around how to create more authentic, meaningful, and real...
PBL Checklist: Evaluating and Reflecting on Past Projects Using a Simple Checklist
How do you reflect on your project-based experiences? How do you know if they were effective? When I first started as a PBL teacher, I rarely...
Building Community and Ownership: 5 Mini-Projects to make the Socially Distanced Classroom More Social
As several of us return to our school sites this week, they hardly look like the places we left last year. Temperature sensors greet us at the...
‘Doing Projects’ vs. Project-Based Learning: Five Questions to Improve Your PBL Experiences
Do you remember the projects you completed as a kid? I remember mine well. As a 3rd grader, after learning about the universe I built a mobile...
5 Creative Ways to Build an Online Learning Community To Start The Year
As we begin the 2020-2021 school year, many of us (me included) have spent sleepless nights wondering how to promote the same kind of online...
How to Avert Total Online Disaster: Why You Need a Student Tech Team
I was in the middle of a presentation for over 40 teachers on how to create project- based experiences online. We were using Microsoft Teams' group...
PBL Case Study #2: The Food Truck Project
Story of PBL Transformation: Community Food Truck When I met with the 5th grade team at Park Maitland, a small school in Orlando, Florida, they were...
Story of PBL Transformation Case Study #1: 10th Grade Theater Project
When Anne Robinson, the instructional coach at Gompers Charter School in San Diego approached me, she was hoping her teachers could develop projects...
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