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When a teacher, school, or district tells parents and community members, "We're going to do Project Based Learning!" the response may vary. You're lucky if some say, "Great news! Students need to be taught differently these days!" but a more typical response might be: What's Project Based Learning?  That's not how I was taught. Why do we need PBL, if (a) our school is already doing well, or (b) what we really need is a better literacy/math program to raise test scores?  Isn't that just a trendy new thing that doesn't really work?  How is this going to affect my child (and me)?  Basically, they're asking for the what, why, and how. Here are some successful strategies we've seen to answer these questions.

Regardless of what social and emotional learning (SEL), character development, or any other related program you might use in your school, two things are true: They have a problem-solving component, and generalization is greatly enhanced when what is being taught as SEL/character is also integrated into the rest of the school day. Because of the importance of language arts skills, reading activities provide an ideal way to build students' problem-solving skills by applying them to deepen their insights into the written materials.

Students discover how their favorite story book characters use simple machines.

This beautiful novel opens the door to discussions about mental health, family dynamics and so much more.

Information & Technology Skills for Student Achievement via Alan November BLC08 pre con: Add the 7th : Publish and get feedback

A podcast with two students driving a "Basketball Without Borders" blog and podcast with college and pro basketball stars.

This is my own digital, real-world project-based learning elective class. These students gave a golden interview!

amazing!

Tikatok™ is where kids channel their imagination into stories - and publish those stories into books for you to share and treasure with friends and family.