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Students strengthen their learning by practicing skills that may not fit directly into a project but build the foundation for authentic, high-quality work.

HTHGSE’s PBL Design Camp has adapted the design process to represent the cyclical nature of designing in education.

Self-understanding is one of the oldest and most venerated forms of wisdom; but it does not come easily.

Here are seven questions to help you develop an engaging and profound essential question.

With simple revisions, tuning protocols are also very useful in the classroom, helping students share their own ideas with peers for critique.

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.

One sure way to build students’ abilities to drive their own learning is to involve them directly in the process of assessment.

A growing number of schools around the world are doing Student-led Conferences, or SLCs, instead of parent-teacher conferences. The difference, as the name implies, is that an SLC flips the structure, so the student takes the lead in the discussion (with support).