The Buck Institute for Education (BIE) received a generous grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to help promote and provide deeper learning opportunities for teachers and students. Recognizing that 11,000 teachers will participate in BIE's 3-day PBL 101 workshop in 2012, the Hewlett Foundation helped BIE expand its professional development resources and expertise online. Now BIE can work with every school and every teacher through PBL University (PBLU).
Offering a variety of tools and timely resources, the P21 Common Core Toolkit provides:
Alignment Overview
A high-level summary of how the P21 framework and the Common Core State Standards support each other
Common Core / P21 Examples
Lesson vignettes that demonstrate "what it looks like" to align instructional practices with both the common core and P21 skills
Common Core Resources
Compilation of useful links for states and districts working to implement the Common Core State Standards
Assessment Resources
Compilation of background reading on the issue of assessment and the 4Cs