Project-Based Learning
Learner-Centered STEM: Meet Harmony Public Schools
What do you get when you mix college prep, personalized blended learning, project-based STEM learning, and a small supportive environment? You get the largest high performing school network you’ve probably never heard of--Harmony Public Schools. Introducing a new series in partnership with Harmony called "Getting Smart on Learner-Centered STEM."
How Project-Based Learning Fosters Community Change
When we bring real world issues to the classroom and allow students to lead real work, through powerful project-based learning, students can have a big impact. How does project-based learning foster community change? What started with a dialogue around slavery and reading the texts of Frederick Douglass resulted in students doing something about modern day slavery in their own community.
17 Teacher Tech Tools for High Quality Project-Based Learning
Teachers can use a variety of tech tools to translate best teaching practices into rich, rigorous high quality projects for their project-based learning classroom.
10 Simple Lesson Plans for Scaffolding Student-Led Projects
From tips on assessment to how best to involve adult mentors, this is a guide for anyone who wants to lead student-led and student-centered projects in the classroom. The curriculum, adopted from Youth Engaged in Leadership & Learning, is broken down into 10 simple lessons-- to scaffolding student-led projects and create engagement and student ownership of learning.
How Project-Based Learning Prepares Youth for Freelance Nation
Young people that decide against the freelance economy and land good jobs with organizations are likely to do most of their work in projects. Other than low skill/low wage tasks, it’s quickly becoming a project-based world.
3 Ways to Teach Everything Through Inquiry
If inquiry-based teaching is superior to traditional teaching, could or should it replace the way we teach everything to everyone? In inquiry teaching, the learner constructs meaning from new information and experiences.
9 Resolutions & 9 Resources for Your Project-Based Learning Classroom This Year
It's a new year. Here are 9 resolutions and 9 resources for your project-based learning classroom for 2016 and beyond. Resolve to involve adult mentors, activate student choice, teach project management and calendaring skills and more. This blog shows you how with resolutions and new resources to make it work.
Project-Based Learning Models the Work World
Why we need to do a better job of preparing students for a project-based world. The importance of the art of breaking down complexity for a team to get their arms around and linking the parts together to create something where nothing had been.
Quality Work + Project-Based Learning at Katherine Smith Elementary
Located in a low income neighborhood behind a strip center in the Evergreen School District in East San Jose, Katherine Smith is a great example of what happens when you have a dedication to community, a drive for excellence and an innovation mindset.
Opportunity: The Heart of Passion-Based Learning
I am forever grateful to these teachers for all they instilled in me, and these creative opportunities now constitute the very heart of one of my favorite projects offered to students in "Studio 113" -- The Crucible Passion-Based Contract. Here are some of the recent opportunities and the results.