In 2009, I had embarked on a solo road trip through Northern California and into Southern Oregon. One of the places I stopped with Lava...

How can modeling our classrooms after campgrounds lead to the ideal learning environment?

PBL practitioners talk a lot about the theories of educational reformer John Dewey, and with good reason. Dewey believed that the best...

Voice and Choice is an important part of strong PBL projects and an essential ingredient in the sausage of student engagement. Without...

Wanted to repost this blog about my experiences using Google Keep in PBL that was recently posted on BIE.org http://www.bie.org/blog/goog...

The school year has begun for just about everyone by now, which means that right now students and teachers across our country are working...

One of the most common features of any PBL project is group work. Even if the product is individual, there should always some form of...

This post is the second in a series of three about building a classroom culture that supports PBL. Please refer back to my last post for...

Students come to class the first few days with boatloads of anxieties. Depending on their age, these stressors could be caused by being...