Tag: PBL

Alec Patton talks to Patrick Yurick about how High Tech High Chula Vista came together to create a mural as a memorial to one of its students, Sean Fuchs. This episode is about a disturbing subject—we don't recommend listening with kids around.

In this article, two educators from Avenues The World School in São Paulo share how a community-themed project gave their students genuine agency—with results that range from hosting science fairs to cooking breakfast for the school kitchen team.

Goal: to help a teacher come up with creative solutions to a thorny dilemma

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.

Ron Berger shares how teachers can use model critiques for instructional practices.

Eleventh grade students created ceramic dinner sets that celebrated community members of the San Diego region.

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!

Over the past decade I’ve attended 11 schools across the United States and Japan. I was born in San Diego, then my family moved to Yokohama, Japan when I was seven years old.

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.