Project-Based Learning
Future of Work
Students Learn Project Management From HQPBL Experiences
The future of work will require that individuals are prepared to manage a multitude of project. The PMI Educational Foundation believes in the power of project-management. Here’s how they’re supporting educators and students in learning effective project-management through PBL lessons and how teachers are integrating project management skills into their practice.
Project-Based Learning
Defining High-Quality Project-Based Learning
Discover how the new Framework for High-Quality Project-Based Learning helps educators better prepare students to contribute in the innovation economy.
Project-Based Learning
5 Things That Make Project-Based Learning Culturally Responsive
By: Joe Truss. Project-Based Learning (PBL) is starting to catch on across the country but why does it work? Joe Truss explains.
SEL & Mindset
Helping Students Develop Discernment, Agency, and Empathy
By: Sherre Vernon, Shelli Kurth and Joe Acker. The Thrive Guarantee is our way of promising to the students we serve that we will help them develop discernment, agency, and empathy. Here, we explore what that promise means, and how we go about fulfilling it.
Project-Based Learning
Project-Based Learning and the Performing Arts: A Match Made in Heaven
By: Mary Ryerse and Emily Liebtag. We recently came across "one of the coolest examples of project-based learning" that they have recently seen. When paired with Performing Arts, PBL does not only promote creativity—it inspires.
Project-Based Learning
Real-World Writing Doesn’t Start with a 5-page Paper
By: Chuck Hensley and Larue Fitch. Two educators share best practices on using project-based learning to engage students and inspire them to explore careers.
Project-Based Learning
5 Steps for Sustaining PBL
By: Jenny Pieratt. High Quality PBL is a journey, not a destination. As you think about professional development for your staff this year, this process can help teachers continue on the trajectory of developing quality projects.
Leadership
Why High School Students Deserve Extended Challenges
To contribute now and in the future, young people deserve extended challenges--long projects that take on tough problems. Tom shares design principals and best practices for engaging students in meaningful extended challenges.
STEM & Maker
Inspiring our Future Leaders with the Maker Movement
By: Connie Liu. All youth have ideas that can change the world. We just need to help them see that. Connie shares how Project Invent is helping inspire youth to change the world.
Network Effect
The Power of Us: A Network Powering Projects, Changing Lives
More than 1,400 educators from more than 150 schools across the U.S. and from Australia braved July humidity in St. Louis to further activate their network's commitment to powerful learning and the “power of us”. Here’s a look at network effect in action.