The product, and the audience it is intended for, provides a focus for student work from the beginning, and students continue to develop it over multiple drafts, until they have created something worthy of exhibiting.
Essential questions are open-ended points of inquiry—relevant to academia, students’ lives and the world beyond school—expressed in student-friendly language.
Projects come to life because students feel an authentic need to master thoughtfully selected learning goals in their quest to create meaningful and beautiful work.
The Six Equity Stances of Liberatory Project-Based Learning creates a way to identify, challenge, and critique the social forces that reproduce inequity and oppression.
There are two different questions I often hear from visitors to High Tech High that are both based on the same misconception about project-based learning.
The first is, “How much time should we be spending on PBL per week?” And the second is, “Is it still OK to give lectures?”
The answer to both of these questions lies in the understanding that a project isn’t a specific kind of lesson, but rather a specific kind of unit.
Alec Patton talks to Liz Chu, Executive Director of the Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) at Columbia University, about the new book she co-authored, The Learning Hive: Leading Collective Innovation to Transform Education Systems.
Alec Patton talks to teacher High School teacher Karen Shaffran and student Alegria Vargas about how their class created a socially conscious cosmetics business, featuring products made from plants grown hydroponically in a storage room!
Alec Patton talks to Lincoln High School Principal Melissa Agudelo about the challenges of bringing exhibitions of student learning to a large urban high school, and how they made it successful by literally doing everything all at once.
Alec Patton talks to Paola Capó-García about "Politics of the Personal," the twelfth-grade English project she created in which students chose a topic of personal interest to write an essay about—and create a piñata!
