PBL Case Study #14: Keeping Student-Led Community Service and Action Projects during CoVid
The Background When CoVid-19 first sank its teeth in last March, Bill and Alex, project mentors and coordinators of student-led Community...
Project Chaos vs. Project Harmony: 10 tips to Ensure the Latter
It’s 2:30 pm on a Friday afternoon during ‘Project Time.’ Glue guns are running hot and leaking onto the floor from all the power...
PBL Spotlight Experience: Student- Led Community Projects Increase Citizenship and Social Responsibi
Background Imagine students across all ages working to address global problems such as opioid deaths, hatred, prejudice, addiction,...
PBL Spotlight Project: Re-Designing School
The Background After 6 months of lockdown, Luke and Peter, Primary Coordinators at the Cambridge International School of Slovakia wanted...
Managing Projects in a Hybrid Environment: 5 Tools to Create Independent, Empowered Learners
Do you have a hard time managing student projects? You aren't alone. Projects are messy. Unlike traditional learning, they don't follow a...
Peer Coaching: 6 Ways to Create a Culture of Coaching and Reflection at Your School
I vividly remember the first time I was observed on that warm, sunny Wednesday morning at 9 am. I was a fresh, 22 year old bright eyed...
Five Anti-Racist Project Ideas: Discuss Authentic Issues, Grow Community, and Build Empathy
We are living in truly unprecedented times. A pandemic has impacted all corners of the globe. Natural disasters have emerged in the most...
Learning Design Checklist: Evaluating and Reflecting on Past Projects Using a Simple Checklist
How do you reflect on your project-based experiences? How do you know if they were effective? When I first started as a PBL teacher, I...
Building Community and Ownership: 5 Mini-Projects to make Socially Distanced Classrooms More Social
As several of us return to our school sites this week, they hardly look like the places we left last year. Temperature sensors greet us...
'Doing Projects' vs. Project-Based Learning: Five Questions to Improve Project Design
Do you remember the projects you completed as a kid? I remember mine well. As a 3rd grader, after learning about the universe I built a...
