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The PBL Design Process, For Educators

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Nuvia Ruland, Kali Frederick
HTHGSE’s PBL Design Camp has adapted the design process to represent the cyclical nature of designing in education.

Latest Articles

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Two young children sit at a table, drawing together with markers as art supplies scatter around—illustrating how DEEP San Diego fosters creativity and helps solve literacy challenges from an early age.
The Literacy Crisis is Solvable, and DEEP San Diego is Obsessed With It
The connection between a lack of reading proficiency and low-income background is well-established. And while the barriers are real, this is a solvable problem—not simple, but solvable.
Allison Ohle
A young person in a yellow and silver costume walks past seated adults, some holding clipboards, in a classroom decorated with colorful murals and space-themed art—against all expectations, it’s clear they truly love school.
How I Began, Against All my Expectations, to Love School
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.
Imasu Thung

Improvement

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Several people sit at tables in a classroom, working together on laptops. Three adults in the foreground share lessons learned, surrounded by notebooks and coffee cups, while more groups collaborate on school improvement projects in the background.
Lessons We Learned from Leading School Improvement Networks
What happens when you bring together two dozen schools—from rural K-12s to large urban high schools—with the shared goal of reducing chronic absenteeism?
Allyson Fritz, Casondra Gerlich, Malorie Kahl
What You Can Gain From Empathy Interviews
Allyson Fritz shares what she has learned about conducting empathy interviews from her work on reducing chronic absenteeism in Washington State. The first rule: an empathy interview is about LEARNING, not changing other people's behavior.
Allyson Fritz

Deeper Learning & PBL

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Two young children sit at a table, drawing together with markers as art supplies scatter around—illustrating how DEEP San Diego fosters creativity and helps solve literacy challenges from an early age.
The Literacy Crisis is Solvable, and DEEP San Diego is Obsessed With It
The connection between a lack of reading proficiency and low-income background is well-established. And while the barriers are real, this is a solvable problem—not simple, but solvable.
Allison Ohle
A young person in a yellow and silver costume walks past seated adults, some holding clipboards, in a classroom decorated with colorful murals and space-themed art—against all expectations, it’s clear they truly love school.
How I Began, Against All my Expectations, to Love School
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.
Imasu Thung

Science & Technology

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How (and Why) to Do a White Board Assessment
There was one student in particular, who I’ll call “Alex.” He excelled in conversations with his peers and often shared his thoughts in class discussions, but his performance on written exams did not reflect the full depth of his understanding.
Michael Chin
Rock On! A Virtual Reality Geology Project
A fourth grader from High Tech elementary North County stood inside a crater of an extinct volcano. He contemplated where to go next...
Kari Shelton

Math

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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.
Marco Aquinde
Three Principles that Guide my Grading as a College Professor
“Grading” for me means more than just marking mistakes and putting a number or letter on an assignment. This is because, for the last ten years, I have used specifications grading in all my classes.
Robert Talbert

Humanities

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Convergence
Teachers plan meaningfully and rigorously in ways that allow the synergy of soft and hard skills to interact
Peter Jana
How We Put On A High School Music Festival
We came up with the idea of planning and putting on a music festival. We looked at each other, paused, then simultaneously said, “Naaahhh.”
Oscar Carrion

Arts

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A Community Committed to Deeper Learning
Almost exactly one year into the global pandemic, the deeper learning community gathered virtually...
Hayley Murugesan, Lambi Chibambo
Graffiti Discussions: Igniting the Silent Majority.
“The main thing to do is pay attention. Pay close attention to everything..."
Bobby Shaddox

Elementary School

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Deconstructing Construction Projects
Last spring I was standing in my fifth-grade classroom, mid-project, rearranging student groups when I realized we had a problem. My students were building scale models of dog houses and cat condos that they had designed—and would ultimately build—to donate to a pet-adoption event later that spring.
Jeff Govoni
Rock On! A Virtual Reality Geology Project
A fourth grader from High Tech elementary North County stood inside a crater of an extinct volcano. He contemplated where to go next...
Kari Shelton

Middle School

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Time for Connection
The past years of the pandemic has made it difficult for students to connect with each other, which is essential for their growth and development, and as teachers, it's important to provide opportunities for them to connect peer-to-peer despite the limited time.
Amanda Green
A person intently annotating in a notebook, with a stethoscope around their neck and a laptop in the background. The sepia tone adds a classic and focused atmosphere, reminiscent of diligent teacher work.
Annotating Teacher Work
The first might be expected of my eighth graders: they were not listening during class. The...
Alicia Trout

High School

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How We Put On A High School Music Festival
We came up with the idea of planning and putting on a music festival. We looked at each other, paused, then simultaneously said, “Naaahhh.”
Oscar Carrion
Assessing Student Work with Next Generation Science Standards
"Creating a project-based curriculum in science was going to be a challenging albeit passionate undertaking."
Geneva Clark
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