Tag: PBL

How can assessment practices be designed to best support student learning? In school, the term “assessment” is often shorthand for “grades”—or, perhaps, tests, quizzes, rubrics, and similar evaluative tools. However, thinking of “assessment” as interchangeable with “test” or “grade” limits the potential for assessment practices to lead to meaningful and deeper learning.

In our "Reading Lists" we collect the tastiest articles, podcast episodes, and videos from the Unboxed archives for your enjoyment and edification! This collection is short and sweet—these are two articles and one video we suggest you check out if you want to answer that age old question, "What is PBL?"

Charged with the challenge and the honour of trying to capture the spectacular quality of David Price’s life, an image, not words, came to mind.

My fourth-grade classroom was covered in cardboard boxes. The entire back wall was piled high with donated boxes. The tables were covered in glue and paint cups sat in the sink. As I began to clean up some paint splatters, I smiled to myself as I thought about how I ended up in this situation.

Goal: to help a teacher refine & develop the design of a project 

We wrote this chapter several years ago, in response to a request from the Sitra Foundation in Finland that we envision the school of the future. The chapter is dated in some respects, but apart from minimal updates and revisions for clarity, it appears here as written.

We came up with the idea of planning and putting on a music festival. We looked at each other, paused, then simultaneously said, “Naaahhh.”

This is one in a trio of articles that provide tried-and-tested, actionable advice for community partnerships in school.

Use this resource to bring community partnerships into your projects

The resources you need to run a workshop on telling stories of learning (or just to learn how to do it yourself!)