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Episode 5: From Teacher-Centered to Student-Led Projects
In this interview, Brett Carrier, a 5th grade PBL teacher and expert learning experience designer, describes how her food truck project transformed...
Episode 4: How to Lead Learning Through Inquiry
What happens when you turn over control of the classroom and project-based experiences to the students? In this short interview, Rosie Howes, a...
Episode 3: Addressing SDGs and Increasing Civic + Social Responsibility
What happens when you use the community as the starting point for meaningful project-based experiences? The Medford Center for Civic and Social...
Episode 2: Using Project-Based Experiences to Increase Equity and Inclusion
How can PBL increase opportunities for equity and inclusion for our most disadvantaged learners? Through his work as the 'Director of Bad*** Work'...
Episode 1: How to Design Interdisciplinary, Project-Based Experiences with Loni Berqvist
In this interview with Loni Bergqvist of 'Imagine If' , we discuss how to move from isolated and subject- specific silos to lead interdisciplinary...
Think Global, Act Local: How to Embed SDGs and Community Projects into Your Curriculum
This article is also published on 'Getting Smart' On September 23rd, 2019, Greta Thunberg gave a speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit...
Music for Spaces: An Exploration in Sound and Project Based Learning in the Hybrid Music Classroom
Robert Kilvington-Shaw, head of Visual Performing Arts and Middle School Music Teacher at the American International School in Hong Kong, reflects...
Five Project Ideas that Build Empathy, Equity, and Emotional Well-Being
No matter which way we slice it, this year has been incredibly tough. We've been through a global pandemic; required to teach in mediums we've never...
PBL Spotlight Project: Re-Designing School
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...
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