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I used to think I was too cool and progressive to give quizzes. But a quiz tells you whether students are learning what you think you are teaching them, quickly and precisely. It’s a perfect data-collection tool: If students learned what you wanted them to learn, they will answer the questions correctly. If they haven’t, they won’t, allowing you to provide targeted help to specific students based on which questions they get wrong. The only caveat is that you shouldn’t grade the quiz, because attaching a grade to a quiz ruins your data.

You don’t need to design a collaborative project in order to take part in a collaborative design process. 

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.

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.

Artifacts of learning provide opportunities for students and teachers to share what was learned and how students developed during its creation.

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.