Project-Based Learning
(PBL) is an instructional approach where traditional, direct classroom instruction and tests are replaced by authentic, often interdisciplinary projects, usually designed by the student with guidance from instructors/coaches, addressing real-world problems as the assessment instead of a test. It also is closely related to deeper learning, challenge-based learning, interest-based learning and more.
Project-Based Learning
From Designing Project-Based Learning to Designing Professional Development
Matthew Leader, a PBL-based school teacher, explains how he coaches other teachers to incorporate more projects into their own practices.
Project-Based Learning
Santa Ynez Valley Union High: An Organic Project-Based Learning Journey
This chronicles one high school’s new and recent journey in an organic implementation of problem and project-based learning. Teachers and students are pushing forward with student voice and choice, civic engagement, student ownership and sharing high quality, public work.
New Pathways
How Systems and States Can Encourage Better Project-Based Learning
Projects develop critical skills including problem definition, design thinking, problem-solving, communications, collaboration, and project management.
Personalized Learning
Ma Ka Hana Ka ʻIke: In Working, One Learns
Ma Ka Hana Ka ʻIke is a youth-focused vocational training, educational, and community-based nonprofit in Hāna, Maui. Through core programs and initiatives, Ma Ka Hana Ka ʻIke empowers and nurtures students and graduates to become caretakers and leaders of their communities.
Project-Based Learning
3 Tips to Build Student’s STEM Confidence and Curiosity from America’s Top Young Scientist
Student Sarah Park shares her story of curiosity and how it led to a purposeful passion.
Green Schools
ASU Prep: Experiencing College Success in High School
ASU Prep is churning out a number of outstanding schools, student projects and ideas. Tom Vander Ark highlights a few recent innovations.
New Pathways
Rethinking Urban Education: Tacoma Public Schools of Choice
In Tacoma, WA, there is a small network of three specialized high schools providing a wide range of students with an entirely unique high school experience. This blog post looks at how these schools are rethinking education in an urban environment.
Difference Making
Students Work To UnTextbook Their Learning
On the UnTextbooked podcast, students change history by having conversations with real historians about dynamic, researched history books and try to get answers to big questions.
Green Schools
Real World Learning About Sustainability
Rachelle Dené Poth highlights some of the hands on learning students are doing in her classroom to better understand SDGs.
Project-Based Learning
Flipping the Script: A Case Study in Student Agency and Youth Entrepreneurship
Aaron Schorn details one Hawai'i Preparatory Academy student's capstone journey from senior year to college.