Project-Based Learning: Other Resources about PBL

What does a Project Based Learning culture look and feel like? What are best practices for a Project Based Learning classroom? Read monthly posts from our facilitators who are implementing Project Based Learning in their classrooms. Learn about designing and implementing PBL Units as well as tools and strategies to make PBL a success in your own classroom! (Free registration required.)

One of the best-known organizations for developing and promoting Project-Based Learning. Site contains lots of documents, rubrics, planning forms, student handouts, etc. "At the Buck Institute for Education (BIE), our highest priority is to help teachers prepare students for successful lives. We do this by showing teachers how to use Project Based Learning in all grade levels and subject areas. As a mission-driven nonprofit organization, BIE creates, gathers, and shares high-quality PBL instructional practices and products and provides highly effective services to teachers, schools, and districts."

Over a decade's worth of ASCD webinars about PBL best practices, featuring Suzie Boss. (Free registration required.)

EdWeek.org blog post by by Amy Reising, Director of Credentialing and Teacher Development, High Tech High, and Katherine Carter, Doctoral Student in Educational Leadership, Harvard University.

A chapter on how the real-world context and challenging nature of PBL helps students acquire and apply 21st Century Competencies, from the Open Access peer-reviewed eBook Educational Technology and the Curriculum compiled by Ontario Tech University MEd students in Spring/Summer 2019.

Using PBL in the ESL classroom. By Kelliel Woodson for FluentU.com

Posted by Thom Markham on 12/02/15 at KQED News' MindShift blog.

"The Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning (IJPBL) publishes relevant, interesting, and challenging articles of research, analysis, or promising practice related to all aspects of implementing problem-based learning (PBL) in K–12 and post-secondary classrooms." From Indiana University.

By Getting Smart and Buck Institute for Education (BIE). [Free Registration Required.]

"In this important new publication, Bonnie Lathram and Tom Vander Ark of Getting Smart and BIE's Bob Lenz argue that the shift to the "gig economy" requires schools to prepare students by providing equitable access to high-quality Project Based Learning."

An article from the October 26, 2017 (Vol. 13, No. 4) "Educational Leadership" publication of ASCD.org.

"This brief is written for adult ESL teachers and program administrators, as well as educational researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders who work with adult English language students in ESL classes or in mixed ABE classes (with native English speakers and English language students)." Written by Julie Mathews-Aydinli, Center for Adult English Language Acquisition, Center for Applied Linguistics, 2007.

Created by Arlington (VA) County Public Schools and the Virginia State Department of Education.

By Alison Zuniga and Thomas M. Cooper for ASCD "Educational Leadership" online June 2016.

From Edutopia.org

Project-based learning (PBL) offers many benefits to English language learners (ELLs). The resources linked to on this site share ideas on how to make it a successful experience for all students.

From the non-profit Global Digital Citizen Foundation.

From the non-profit Global Digital Citizen Foundation.

From the non-profit Global Digital Citizen Foundation.

By Dr. Catlin Tucker, recounting her experience with Project-Based Learning teaching. From June 19, 2017.

Links to some guiding materials and resources that can be both inspiration and application on the PBL path. By Rhonda Huisman for College & Research Libraries News (Vol. 78, No. 7, 2017)

Various resources on project-based learning are featured. From the Trumbell County Educational Service Center.

"Completing class projects can be fun for your students, especially if they know exactly what is needed. Creating guidelines can be time-consuming though, so we've made a way for you to do it in no time!" Guidelines in writing, science, oral presentation, and multimedia, for diverse grade-levels. También disponible en español.

From the Blueprints In Health Profession Education Series.

By Mariko Nobori, the former Managing Editor and Producer, Edutopia.org