4 Keys To Sustainable School-Wide PBL
Hosting a workshop with teachers is only the first step to take in implementing a school-wide PBL plan for students.

Hosting a workshop with teachers is only the first step to take in implementing a school-wide PBL plan for students.

Not all PBL need be complex in content, process, or product; the action of intentional design for deeper learning should be constant.

If we’re asking teachers to help young people be the best they can be, shouldn’t we clear as many obstacles as possible?

Hank (from King of the Hill) brings a clear-eyed vision to how he and the kids can be effective and useful, and the kids are transfixed.

We believe there is real value & necessity for certain knowledge & want learners to learn & use it in multiple ways & for multiple reasons.

No longer does the teacher need to be only responsible for ‘covering’ content, a practice that often feels like climbing the down escalator.

The acceleration of machine intelligence makes it more important for humans to be critical thinkers, questioners & problem navigators.

5 Reasons Why PBL May Not Be Working At Your School contributed by Drew Perkins Is the project-based learning happening but not working? You’ve read the books, liked and retweeted the tweets, listened to the podcasts, and drank the Kool-Aid. Excitedly, you watched as teachers started their projects with their students, eagerly anticipating their exhibitions of learning as…

Project-based learning is not just doing projects, it’s students learning through the work of a project and that’s a critical distinction.

Great teachers go beyond being ‘good’ by leveraging student curiosity to spark beautiful questions and profound thinking.
Drew Perkins talks with JuanCarlos Arauz of E3 Education as a second part to their recent conversation about equity and education.

Ideally PBL implementation isn’t isolated from teachers, students, parents and others who will be engage in this pedagogical shift.
So what makes for a quality facilitator of professional development? It’s complex, but here are a few tips.
Making Thinking Visible: The Story Of A Sketchnoter contributed by Reshan Richards Before I even learned about sketchnoting, Explain Everything was available on the App Store for almost 2 years. I was at a conference for Apple Distinguished Educators and Brad Ovenell-Carter from Vancouver was posting these amazing, visually engaging images on Twitter with the…