Tag: 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!)

A fourth grader from High Tech elementary North County stood inside a crater of an extinct volcano. He contemplated where to go next...

We called our project the Earth Authors Program. It began with Ramnath setting the groundwork by giving children an authentic reason for writing.