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Four colorful tote bags with different patterns—brown, galaxy, blue with robots, and solid yellow—are hanging side by side against a green background. Each bag has light-colored handles. These Totes of Hope are part of a Humanities Project aimed at raising awareness for mental health.
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The “Totes of Hope”: A Mental Health Humanities Project

To address the youth mental health crisis, 11th grade Humanities teacher Andres Perez and his students at High Tech High Chula Vista sewed tote bags for patients at Rady Children’s Hospital Psychiatric Outward. Along the way they learned about the systematic issues in society that could lead to troubling mental health issues, and how to take action toward them. They also learned the importance of iterating a product and a process, and giving grace to oneself through it all.
The “Totes of Hope”: A Mental Health Humanities Project
Children work in a colorful classroom with posters on the walls, joined by cartoon characters resembling Master Chief and Mario, creating a playful, surreal scene that highlights classroom engagement through educational gamification.
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Four Ways Game Design Levels Up Engagement in Your Classroom

There's a lot that project-based teachers can learn from game designers...
Four Ways Game Design Levels Up Engagement in Your Classroom
Two students, working on student projects while wearing masks, sit at a desk covered in worksheets and storyboards, using pencils. Laptops are open in front of them, and one student wears a black hoodie. A GET BUSY sign is visible in the background—highlighting collaborative project grouping approaches.
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Two Approaches to Grouping Students in Projects

Early in the spring, I got a phone call from a school principal asking what Unboxed had on group roles in projects...
Two Approaches to Grouping Students in Projects
A woman and a young girl are talking in front of a whiteboard with drawings and notes. The woman is smiling, while the girl looks attentive, as if soaking up every bit of teaching like rock stars learning from their mentors. Papers and a timer are attached to the board.
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Rock Stars, Eggs, and Teaching 

What really counts in the "egg drop challenge" is what happens after an egg breaks...
Rock Stars, Eggs, and Teaching 
Three young adults work together outdoors, engaging in project based learning as they measure and discuss a large wooden board on a table, surrounded by green grass and trees under a clear blue sky.
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What is PBL?

A key question for PBL educators: how will we know if we are doing project-based learning well?
What is PBL?
A group of people poses in front of a yellow building with a large mural of a young child with curly hair, looking upward—a striking symbol that resonates with equity stances. The mural covers the upper facade, while the group stands smiling below, embodying the spirit of community and shared purpose.
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The Six Equity Stances of Liberatory Project-Based Learning

The Six Equity Stances of Liberatory Project-Based Learning creates a way to identify, challenge, and critique the social forces that reproduce inequity and oppression.
The Six Equity Stances of Liberatory Project-Based Learning
A young boy in a blue hoodie and red pants crouches on a gravel surface, holding a rock—a place where children can freely explore shapes and play—while other children engage with a plastic container in the blurred background.
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When Place Shapes the Product

Genesee Community Charter School is centering students in a place-based curriculum provides them with a deeper understanding of...
When Place Shapes the Product
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