District Leader Resources

Gold Standard PBL

Gold Standard PBL: Essential Project Design ElementsA research-informed model for improving, calibrating, and assessing your practice.

WHAT: Gold Standard PBL: Project Based Teaching PracticesIn Gold Standard PBL, projects are focused on students acquiring key knowledge. Traditional teaching practices remain, but are reframed in the context of a project.

Project Design & Teaching Rubrics

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Project & Teaching Practice Videos

Project Video Playlist

Teaching Practice Video Playlist

The Project Path & PBL Strategy Guides

Project_Path_v2019.pdf

PBLWorks District Leader Resources

It Takes a System for High Quality PBLHow school district leaders work on coherence, culture, capacity building, and continuous improvement.

Change Leadership Resources

Five Beliefs That Get in the Way of PBL—and How to Address ThemWhy teachers and leaders must examine their core beliefs about good teaching and learning.

New Booklet for Parents & School Communities to Build Understanding & Support for PBLAn overview of a short booklet published by PBLWorks with a jargon-free explanation of the why and what of PBL, with project examples and answers to FAQs.

Social and Emotional Learning and Project Based Learning

Researchers Connect "Transformative" Social-Emotional Learning to PBL & EquityA paper that bolsters the case for PBL as a strategy for promoting equity, especially for Black and Brown students.

A Natural Fit: Integrating Social-Emotional Learning and PBLHow to make sure PBL and SEL are not seen as separate add-ons to a school's program.

Equity and Project Based Learning

Standardized Tests: The Elephant Stomping on Equity (and PBL)An argument for why projects produce better evidence of what students know and can do.

High-Quality PBL as an Equity ImperativeHow the six criteria for a student’s experience of high-quality PBL can advance racial equity.

Learning Loss

Too Much Focus on ‘Learning Loss’ Will Be a Historic MistakeLearning loss is real and needs to be addressed, but how we go about it should be commensurate with the size of the moment.

Accelerating Learning As We Build Back BetterAs we work to reopen schools safely and effectively, it’s important not to return to “normal” but to reinvent school in ways that center relationships and are grounded in the science.

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