Professional Learning
The Need for a High Quality PBL Framework
PBL is increasingly recognized as a powerful instructional practice, and there is a growing need for guidance and support in its facilitation. Learn more about how education leaders worldwide are working to design and craft a Model for High-Quality PBL.
Three Ways to Use Microlearning in Higher Education Classrooms
By: Blake Beaus. Higher education is no longer a world of physical textbooks and hour-long presentations, so implementing microlearning (a great employee onboarding tool in corporate learning) could help meet the needs of today's college students.
Quick Start Guide to Place-Based Professional Learning
As educators begin to think about how the community can be a classroom for students, it is important for them to develop their own sense of place and long-term strategies to ensure effective implementation. This guide can help prepare teachers for Place-Based Education.
Quick Start Guide to Place-Based Education
Our team has visited hundreds of schools. The best all had something in common: teachers created learning opportunities for students out in the "real world." In this publication, we explore how more teachers and schools can start doing the same.
The Innovation to Drive Innovation: Scaling Inquiry
By: Thom Markham. When done well, project-based learning helps students discover the fruits of a creative journey that leads to innovation and deeper learning. A kind of magic occurs. How can we bottle that magic? Find out here.
What’s New in Leadership? Lifelong Learning + Project Management
As we have been writing throughout our project-based world series, the nature of work is changing and so in turn are the necessary skills for success. So what do we need to ensure we grow the type of leaders we'll need in the future?
Bridging the Gap Between Traditional and Innovative Teaching and Learning
By: Jenny White and Clifford Maxwell. Now more than ever, blended learning is poised to be a critical lever for schools to make new levels of personalization not just feasible but scalable, and educators can learn more by connecting to each other through BLU.
Four Ways Blended PD Makes Teachers Ready for the Classroom
Providing teachers with effective professional development and support that actually works starts with an ecosystem of feedback that comes from principals, peers (and teachers themselves), both in person and via technology.
Four Key Ingredients For The Teacher PD Revolution
By: Jenny Pieratt. We have all sat through top-down, sit-and-get professional development workshops that fail to provide us with inspiring, engaging learning. Here's how to know when your community is ready for a change in PD.
What Do Education Leaders Need? Surprisingly, What Students Do!
By: Gia Truong. If learning truly is a lifelong process, then even education leaders need to stay on the learning path and see ongoing leadership development as critical to their—and their students’—success.