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A girl with green-streaked hair plays an acoustic guitar in a music classroom, while other students in the background play drums, exploring essential questions about rhythm and melody as they practice together.
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Seven Questions to Find Out If Your Question is Essential

Here are seven questions to help you develop an engaging and profound essential question.
Seven Questions to Find Out If Your Question is Essential
A teacher helps a group of young students with their schoolwork at a table, surrounded by notebooks, pencils, and highlighters, as they engage in peer-critique using tuning protocols to enhance their learning experience.
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How Students Can Use Tuning Protocols for Peer-Critique

With simple revisions, tuning protocols are also very useful in the classroom, helping students share their own ideas with peers for critique.
How Students Can Use Tuning Protocols for Peer-Critique
A person with red hair points at an image of a planet on a wall covered with numbered space photos, illustrating a project-based learning environment. They wear a dark shirt and headphones around their neck, while purple string lights hang below the photos.
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Designing the Product in Project-based Learning

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.
Designing the Product in Project-based Learning
Two girls with long dark hair smile and work together at a white sewing machine. Embracing project-based learning, one wears glasses, and both look focused and excited as they guide fabric through the machine in a well-lit indoor setting, actively designing their own creative solutions.
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Designing the Essential Question in Project-Based Learning

Essential questions are open-ended points of inquiry—relevant to academia, students’ lives and the world beyond school—expressed in student-friendly language.
Designing the Essential Question in Project-Based Learning
Hand-drawn sketches and handwritten instructions for assembling a small drawer box, designed to support project-based learning. Includes measurements, labeled parts, and step-by-step construction notes to help users achieve their learning goals.
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Connect Learning Goals & Products in Project-based Learning

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.
Connect Learning Goals & Products in Project-based Learning
A child explores a common question through drawing abstract shapes with a pencil on a folded piece of paper while sitting at a wooden table, embracing the spirit of PBL and creative discovery.
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PBL gives you a magic answer to a common question

Project-based learning provides an excellent answer to a question that students ask a lot: “Why are we learning this?”
PBL gives you a magic answer to a common question
Two women sit at a table with papers, pens, and drinks, engaged in conversation during a meeting focused on community planning. One woman wears a blue headscarf, and the other has long brown hair and glasses. Their discussion highlights collaborative design principles inspired by the Charrette Protocol.
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The Charrette Protocol

I love the charrette protocol because it provides a structure for brainstorming lots of ideas for developing an initial idea for a project.
The Charrette Protocol
A colorful painting shows glass potion bottles and orbs above the word eleksir, evoking the magical world of selling potions. The bottles have corks and different symbols, with a blue background and keys hanging nearby—almost as if each key could unlock secrets to learning Danish or uncovering ancient Danish language spells.
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Learning Danish by Selling Potions

Imagine peering down an ordinary school hallway, clutching an entry ticket that was sent to you. You turn a corner and stop in front of a wall. There, you spot a concealed opening and step through to Diagon Alley, the hidden magical market from JK Rowling’s Harry Potter novels.
Learning Danish by Selling Potions
A group of smiling teens and adults prepare food together on a sunny day, wearing gloves and casual clothes, standing by a table outside near a red building. Reminiscent of the teamwork found in Math Class or at the Starting Line of a PBL project, one person playfully poses with cooking tongs.
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PBL in a Math Class: A Journey to the Starting Line

You can bring PBL principles into any math class immediately with four simple strategies—no large project required.
PBL in a Math Class: A Journey to the Starting Line
Four people sit together in a cozy room, having a discussion with laptops open on their laps as they engage in the planning process. A small round table with a drink can is between them, and bookshelves are visible in the background.
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Focus on the “How” of Planning Not Just the “What”

Visitors to High Tech High often misconstrue its approach to planning as “loose” or “anything goes” compared to traditional schools, because teachers aren’t following a pre-set curriculum. In fact, High Tech High is “tight” on things that most schools a “loose” on. 
Focus on the “How” of Planning Not Just the “What”
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