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Top 4 tips: Use social media. Meet with team representatives. Play "Slacker Hard Ball." Formatively assess often.

"As collaboration and project-based learning become preeminent ways of teaching and learning, many teachers struggle with how to evaluate these types of lessons. Traditional methods of evaluation, which have many flaws on their own, are not well-suited for interdisciplinary, multi-modal learning. Teachers need ideas for encouraging students, providing meaningful feedback, and setting students up for success."

"The Common Core has embedded within it some Big Ideas that shift the role of teachers to curriculum designers and managers of an inquiry process. How can project-based learning (PBL) help with this shift?"

"Edutopia's curated compilation of online resources for understanding and beginning to implement project-based learning."

"Project-based learning, as with all lessons, requires much preparation and planning. It begins with an idea and an essential question. "

"Blending all of this into the traditional A-F grading system, however, has on occasion felt like pounding a square peg into a round hole. At this point in the school year, we feel that standards-based grading would be the best and most opportune solution to grading in a PBL environment. "