Sonia, a fourth grader, pointed proudly to her essay, hanging prominently in her classroom with six others as examples of “supporting a claim with evidence.” The essay was one of dozens of artifacts ...

Students in Rose Moe’s sixth grade math class at Lincoln Middle School are given a mission each year: to design the ultimate lunchbox. Working in groups of three, they embark on a four to six week ...

The California-based nonprofit PBLWorks recently announced a partnership with the Kentucky Department of Education on a multi-year initiative to use virtual training to bring project-based learning to ...

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Throughout my entire career as a computer teacher, I have used project-based learning (PBL). I’ve had students as young as first grade working on projects using LCSI’s Microworlds, an authoring tool ...

Think about a traditional sit-and-get lesson: “Today’s lesson will be about map skills: landforms, climate, elevation, migration, and population density.” You can practically see the students decaying ...

The Buck Institute for Education/PBL Works has launched a new year-long professional development program designed to help educators and administrators in New York City transform education using ...

Tyler Graff is the incoming principal at the Claire Lilienthal alternative school in San Francisco Unified. Previously, he was principal of Stevenson Elementary, a public school in Mountain View, ...

Doug Bonderud is an award-winning writer capable of bridging the gap between complex and conversational across technology, innovation and the human condition. Organizations face a growing skills gap — ...

David Ross is a global education consultant and former CEO of the Partnership for 21st Century Learning (P21). After holding national and international education leadership roles for 15 years, in ...