…Charlotte VT, shared their journey towards authentic, meaningful, engaging project-based learning. The “Gold Standard” in project-based learning. At the 2019 Middle Grades Conference, they candidly talked about the successes and…
Read more
…to launch service and project-based learning from! What do you think? How can we move our service and project-based learning into a more intentional strength-based and justice oriented experiences? …
Read more
…Based Learning have also been mistakenly used interchangeably. The NewTech Network has create a nice graphic that helps show the difference. click to enlarge But why move to project-based learning?…
Read more
…guide as to exactly how to structure a gallery walk around project-based learning. How do you help student reflect regularly in project based learning? What works for you? Or what…
Read more
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS
…project-based learning and service learning is that project-based learning can be a simulation. It can be this court case that you’re acting out. Or it can be a mock election….
Read more…why aren’t we using it more in education? Why aren’t we using it in project-based learning? Maybe we just need some ideas on how to use VR in education. So…
Read more
…to support PBL Project based learning in the primary grades Examples of Exciting PBL These stories describe some real-world examples of Project-Based Learning. Project-based learning: Extreme weather PBL unit How…
Read more
…relevant and authentic problem-solving task with scientific inquiry and communication outcomes. It’s Project-Based Learning at its best. What makes project-based learning useful for young adolescents? One of the keys of…
Read more
…The Edge Academy at Essex Middle School, in Essex Junction VT, has been doing project-based learning alongside negotiated curriculum for the past six years. Facilitators Lindsey Halman and Phil Young…
Read more
Honor scholars with an authentic audience for their work The culminating event! It’s the lovely finish line of a Project-Based learning unit. The big event. You’ve been planning for months…
Read more…PBL unit Entry events for project-based learning Brainstorming and Research in PBL Scaffolds to support PBL learners 8 methods for reflection in project-based learning Assessment in Project-Based Learning Culminating Events…
Read more
…that had our three kids rotating through hands-on work, learning apps, and ….(drumroll)….project time. While I continue to work full time, my husband took over all things kids and schooling….
Read morePodcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS
…with three groups of students at Essex Middle School’s Edge Academy just before the break and hear how their year-long project-based learning (PBL) projects are going. In the final installment…
Read more
…individual project interests based on these experiences. Based on this and the dotstorming work, students were placed into task forces to begin their Project for Hope. The project continues, with…
Read more…start small and make it manageable. Let’s break it down. Getting started with project-based learning and grades K-3 1. Use this template (please make a copy!) to create outline your…
Read moreHow do you explain PBL to families? The popularity of Project-Based Learning (PBL) has grown significantly with teachers and students, but what about parents? When students walk out of school,…
Read moreStart with the dramatic, unexpected & memorable Q: What do we really want from project-based learning? A: We want students to care about this subject. To really, truly care about…
Read more
…your community gave students on their work. While your next PBL idea’s a-percolatin’, take time to reflect on these three key areas, and take project-based learning to the next level….
Read more
…ready hope. That makes sense. Question on Self-Direction & Project-Based Learning “In terms of the popularity of project-based learning as a scaffold for, for authentic and meaningful learning opportunities for…
Read more…Vermont news station WCAX. During the project, students referred back to this experience frequently. It gave them several things important to successful project-based learning: real-world relevance examples of careers models…
Read more…families, inform your practice, and improve student learning. Formative Assessments These are assessments for along the way. They inform the teacher of the learning taking place and what supports may…
Read more
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS
…“What kind of things do kids engage with?” So we went into a bunch of schools in the urban area here and looked at classrooms that were doing project-based learning….
Read morePodcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS
…us on this. In the 2nd of our three-part series looking at project-based learning with The Edge team at Essex Middle School, we talk to a novelist, a playwright (slash-director-slash-costume-designer-slash-actor)…
Read more
…the curriculum around project-based learning. This end-of-project reflection template shows how students set PLP goals at the beginning of the project and then provide evidence at the end of the…
Read more
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS
…focus on project-based learning. Project-based learning is a type of personalized learning that fuses student passions with concrete actions in the world. Students begin each project-based learning cycle by focusing…
Read more
…look really familiar, but there’s the project-based learning book, Power of the Adolescent Brain by Thomas Armstrong. It’s unbelievable, totally into the brain-based learning piece. Very inspiring when you think…
Read more
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS
…learning, complements this idea of building peaks. The nature of project-based learning is that there’s some authenticity to the work, and hopefully some public performance and public product. I have…
Read more…of Vermont’s Portrait of a Graduate. Outdoor learning, community-based learning, J-term or year-end studies, service learning, place- and project-based, and so many other effective and compelling approaches to curriculum are…
Read more…Mark, Tarrant Institute, 2018 Culminating Events for Project-Based Learning, Katy Farber, 2017 When Students Share Their Work, It Deepens the Learning, Rachel Mark, Tarrant Institute, 2018 Chapter 8: PLPs, Goal-setting…
Read more…valued outside of school as well. Not surprisingly, they form the backbone of Vermont’s Portrait of a Graduate. Outdoor learning, community-based learning, J-term or year-end studies, service learning, place- and…
Read more…academic researchers, there are a wide range of benefits for students. What are your tips for doing service learning, project-based learning, or community-based learning? Please share your thoughts in the…
Read more
…if you have a project, or project-based learning approach. Project-based learning final product at Cabot School: evidence of learning, research, reflection, growth, creativity during the project. Is the project at…
Read more
…PLPs Portfolio Development – evidence, growth, reflection I intentionally amplify student agency by building in choice of subject, path, and pace. Project-based learning Service learning Hyperdocs Choice boards 6 Student-Centered…
Read more
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS
…that if they are in fact implemented fully. We have so many good examples: project-based learning, place-based education, service learning and especially critical service learning. Negotiated curriculum. The James Bean…
Read more…high-quality summative assessment look like in action? The crucial role of practice in a proficiency-based environment How can I design and implement summative assessments in project-based learning? Assessment in Project-Based…
Read more
…and focus on the skills there and everything. And our outdoor ed work uses project-based learning, and really a large focus on transferable skills. So while we have social studies…
Read more
…the primary grades Examples of Exciting PBL These stories describe some real-world examples of Project-Based Learning. Project-based learning: Extreme weather PBL unit How to build a better (student-made) chicken coop…
Read more
…ingredient: a personalized learning coordinator. As people in the education community know, there are four main flexible pathways for personalized learning in Vermont: work-based learning online learning dual enrollment and…
Read more
…meets with teams, and works toward being proactive instead of reactive in planning, teaching, and supporting students. Project-based learning provides her with many opportunities to promote relevance, engagement, and self-direction…
Read more…in their learning journey. Proficiency-Based teaching and learning in Vermont: the who, why and how Winooski’s Graduate Proficiencies & Expectations How do you measure success with project based learning? …
Read more…project-based learning? 5 lessons learned from an integrated middle school PBL unit: Reflections from the Burke Town School Kick off project-based learning with a community event: Hope launches in the…
Read more
…weather. Together create a web of ideas about all of the teaching and learning, possible integration points and parts of project-based learning they might contain. As in, what might be…
Read more
…teachers personalize learning for students? Charlie Herzog, Flood Brook School. Studying how students talk about their experiences with project-based learning. Jon Brown, Lamoille Union Middle School. “Can project-based math yield…
Read more
…6th grade teacher at Warren Elementary School, Warren VT convenes her Learning Lab Site-Based Team every Tuesday at lunch. The group provides on-going feedback about their project based learning in…
Read more
…it’s anti-racist teaching, whether it’s project-based learning, you know, the things that we know are so engaging and authentic for students. Do you have thoughts on how people can strike…
Read more
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS
…John and Katy, by defining personalized learning. I wondered if you could put your definition in a nutshell for us. Defining “personalized learning” Penny: Happy to! So, I think the…
Read more
…Chrissy built digital structures to reinforce and expand on the community work. She created a unit that uses project-based learning structures to shape remote learning. She built the Connect Vermont…
Read more
…and the field of education in general? The questions “How might students’ sense of personalization grow as they shift from doing projects to project-based learning?”*Charlie Herzog “How can school in…
Read more
…with this check in. Here are a few tools that support collaboration in remote project-based learning: Online doc and slideshow comments and revision history (project ideas here) A collaborative Padlet…
Read more
…third big project-based learning unit of the year, Leland & Gray teachers wanted students to “make a difference” in their community. Service learning was the perfect fit, and the K-12…
Read more
…this project-based learning unit and were tasked to choose a social, political, or cultural revolution and explain “What is the influence of your revolution?” This provided context for the overarching…
Read more
…may gather evidence of learning and share appreciative reflections on growth with families through celebration-centered student-led conferences. Classrooms do important, meaningful, and impactful things together like service-learning and critical project-based…
Read more
…pedagogies, including project-based learning, place-based learning, negotiated curriculum, and service-learning. It sounds like a lot. But actually, these approaches blend together quite easily with impressive results. When you engage students…
Read more…and with greater shared purpose. Project exhibition for peers and parents culminating a project-based learning unit on endangered species. Pillar Three: Flexible pathways Flexible pathways are certainly present in the…
Read more…for reflection in project-based Learning I can create a feedback-rich environment in which learners are provided actionable feedback to guide their next steps toward proficiency. What are the keys to…
Read more
…project. They also wanted to help students make connections across content areas and with the community. Tyler Willis, the Humanities teacher, enrolled in a graduate course about project based learning….
Read more…that. Please add your own in the comments and let us know what we’ve missed! Project-based learning In Project-based learning, students identify a question they want to answer and then…
Read moreBuild a community to support project-based learning I bet you have big dreams of creative, innovative projects and engaged students in your classroom. Students who are busy researching, collaborating, creating,…
Read more
…bit of planning and pivoting. So, rewind! What are culminating events? They’re the lovely finish line of a project-based learning unit. They celebrate the projects and the learning in an…
Read more
…have been engaging their students in another form of PBL: project-based learning with a critical lens. For example, Edmund’s Middle School teacher Jeremy DeMink engages learners in addressing social inequities…
Read more
…larger community. You can find the permanent link to the toolkit here. Also, there is a lot of overlap between community-engaged learning and place-based learning, outdoor learning , project-based learning…
Read more…us off the leash, into a fenced field, where we could lead the way.” How could you help your students tell the story of their project-based learning? Save Save…
Read more
How do project-based learning and makerspaces fit together? Making and PBL may look like two completely different educational movements, but in reality they work well together and each strengthens the…
Read more
…easier for me to end it. No, I’m not ready to end it. The reason is I haven’t done project-based learning right. I haven’t personalized it enough. I trapped myself….
Read more