{"id":18287,"date":"2019-02-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?p=18287&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=18287"},"modified":"2019-04-01T15:23:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T19:23:29","slug":"measuring-success-project-based-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/measuring-success-project-based-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you measure success with project-based learning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8220;A Tale of Three Projects&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/action-research\/#.XHQmRpNKhTs\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11278\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/action_research.jpg\" alt=\"getting started with action research\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two Vermont educators share how they measure success with project-based learning units&#8230; in space!<\/p>\n<p>Allan Miller and Natasha Grey, two educators from Charlotte Central School, Charlotte VT, shared their journey towards authentic, meaningful, engaging project-based learning. The &#8220;Gold Standard&#8221; in project-based learning. At the 2019 Middle Grades Conference, they candidly talked about the successes and failures they experienced with three project-based learning units conducted during the 2017-2018 school year. The projects built towards a deeply meaningful and highly engaging set of learning opportunities. But along the way, there was a lot of learning on the teachers&#8217; parts, in terms of what worked and what&#8230; could use some improvement.<\/p>\n<p>So: how do you know what works?<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_53224\"  width=\"525\" height=\"295\"  data-origwidth=\"525\" data-origheight=\"295\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ay-Gu6elXU0?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"How do you measure success with project-based learning?\"  src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Ay-Gu6elXU0\/maxresdefault.jpg\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A full, annotated\u00a0 transcript of their presentation, with slides, appears below.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Why We&#8217;re Here<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18489 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-1-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;A Tale of Three Projects&quot;\" width=\"770\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-1-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-1-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-1-370x231.jpg 370w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-1-270x169.jpg 270w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-1-740x463.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We were hoping to give you a brief overview of our experience planning a project-based learning experience for a group of sixth graders. We\u2019ll start with our overall first experience and then talk about a model that we grounded ourselves in to help us figure out how to do project-based learning in a really meaningful way. Then we\u2019ll talk about the next two iterations of our experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0In case you\u2019re wondering what <\/span>the ISS is doing up there?<b>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18490 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-2-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-2-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-2-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-2-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-2-370x231.jpg 370w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-2-270x169.jpg 270w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-2-740x463.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are science-based <\/span>projects <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">but we\u2019re not so much talking about the design of the project in science. We\u2019re talking about the design of the project in general. Hopefully it transfers to humanities, language arts, science and math.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<h2>Dinner verses Dessert<\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s our basic take away: this image represents our learning last year. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18491 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-3-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-3-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-3-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-3-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-3-370x231.jpg 370w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-3-270x169.jpg 270w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-3-740x463.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The difference between having a super-engaging activity that students love and a scaffolded in, grounded project-based learning. That&#8217;s what we learned from our three projects. The\u00a0<\/span>Buck Institute, one of the world&#8217;s leading experts on project-based learning, refers to<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the difference<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">between these two things as akin to the difference between dessert and a full course meal.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Project 1.0 &#8211; Sally Ride EarthKAM<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18492 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-4-1024x635.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Central School project-based learning\" width=\"770\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-4-1024x635.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-4-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-4-768x476.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-4-370x229.jpg 370w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-4-270x167.jpg 270w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-4-740x459.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Natasha:<\/strong>\u00a0&#8216;Allan came to me with a really awesome activity. One that he had done in several other schools and several other places. It was taking photographs from the International Space Station. I\u2019ll be honest; I had no prior knowledge about the International Space Station. I had no interest in space exploration. It was a leap of faith for me. It turned out to be cool activity. Our school was in the process of implementing proficiency-based learning I was like \u201cOh we can use this, we can totally attach this to some learning targets and use it to integrate, and it\u2019s going to be great.\u201d&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Did we hit the targets? Well&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In implementing proficiency-based learning, we were trying to make the learning goals for students really transparent.\u00a0 As well as the pathway to how to get those goals. Trying to find different experiences for students to use to hit those targets was really important. We thought, well we have these really amazing pictures that students have taken from the International Space Station they can use those pictures as evidence.\u00a0What a unique way to integrate evidence in a way that isn\u2019t just text-based! It was also a really awesome opportunity for us to use our one-to-one Chromebooks and to develop some responsible technology skills. As well as some just really practical technology skills. We combined all of these wonderful ideas into a culminating project, that we thought would knock the socks off our students and us. Students needed to make a narrated PowerPoint using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.screencastify.com\/\">Screencastify<\/a> , The students used their pictures as evidence to support a claim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18494 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-6-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Central School project-based learning\" width=\"770\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-6-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-6-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-6-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-6-370x231.jpg 370w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-6-270x169.jpg 270w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-6-740x463.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/13Fh3x0hiFD9EakObLc3m_g5P8BQ2Mkhb\/view\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And here\u2019s an example of the resulting screencast.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was&#8230; not so great. In fact, we took that really awesome activity that kids were so stoked about and we forced them to make these miserable products. They didn&#8217;t like making them. And we had to pull teeth to get them to do it. They were absolutely horrible for me to sit down and watch *45* of.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>We refer to this as a belly flop.<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s like the dioramas that end up in the garbage\u00a0after a project<b>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What did we miss? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This makes me go back and look and say, \u201cWow that had no authenticity, the students really didn\u2019t have a choice, it wasn\u2019t a <\/span>sustained inquiry<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.&#8221; Let\u2019s not kid ourselves, that wasn\u2019t PBL. W<\/span>e learned and said,<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0&#8220;Oh, maybe we\u2019ve got to go back and do a little bit of analysis for ourselves of what project-based learning is.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Reflections on PBL 1.0<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were some really great things. The kids loved doing the actual project; they were going home and taking photographs and really using a lot of great technology skills to do that.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was an innovative way to use chromebooks. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How often does a student get take control of the camera on an actual space station???? That is a whole lot more than using your Chromebook to write another essay.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lot of students did show <\/span>real growth<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the evidence and analysis scales, especially between interpreting implicit evidence and explicit evidence. As well as really knowing the difference and being able to articulate it.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But we wanted to build on video and screencasting. The tools showed us what the kids could do. It\u2019s a formative assessment.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>What didn&#8217;t work:<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18497 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-9-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Central School project-based learning\" width=\"770\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-9-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-9-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-9-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-9-370x231.jpg 370w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-9-270x169.jpg 270w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-9-740x463.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We learned one of the things that really didn\u2019t work was: we forced that alignment between those targeted learning skills and that <\/span>culminating<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> project. It really was us forcing them.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Background knowledge, that was another one. We had students do research they didn\u2019t have background in &#8212; topography and the connection between civilizations &#8212; and that was forced. Plus, we didn\u2019t give ourselves time for it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, those products weren\u2019t really made for anyone except for us: their teachers. There was no genuine audience. Students really didn\u2019t feel a deep connection to the work, or any real need to get it done. Or any need to do it well outside of pleasing us and that\u2019s really not a good enough reason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Project One? As the kids would say,\u00a0 &#8220;it was the worst of times&#8221;. But things did get better for us. (Eventually).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Project 2.0 &#8211; Houston We Have A Problem<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18499 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-10-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Central School project-based learning\" width=\"770\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-10-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-10-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-10-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-10-370x231.jpg 370w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-10-270x169.jpg 270w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-10-740x463.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We designed an engineering design problem. Continuing with the International Space Station theme was some background that we want to give the students.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We looked at: \u201cCan they make an insulator, can they take something like this which has some technology involved&#8221; and include data<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">logger. Could they insulate this simulation battery and a) keep it cool in the heat extremes of space and b) keep it warm in the cold extremes of space.\u00a0We were really intentional, we had a science target that we were working on teaching kids about and we had a math target. We started with what skills we wanted to build \u00a0and then built this project around them.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>A. Content in PBL? Why YES.<a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18500 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-11-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Central School project-based learning\" width=\"770\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-11-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-11-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-11-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-11-370x231.jpg 370w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-11-270x169.jpg 270w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-11-740x463.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>B. Fail early, fail often, fail fast<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, we really have some belief in design thinking. Design thinking is the idea that we want students to learn to iterate and we literally introduced this as maybe the stupidest model that could ever be introduced in school. Failure is of course an option.\u00a0 We want the design thinking idea that even the best engineers <\/span>fail early, fail often and fail fast<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, that\u2019s how they learn. We follow this model to say, \u201cYou\u2019re going to test, you\u2019re going to prototype and it\u2019s not whether your design is fantastic, it\u2019s what you learn from your design\u201d. That\u2019s what scientists do!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, this is kind of how the project worked. We had a set of materials that we could generally say an astronaut could find on the International Space Station. Working in groups gave them some very specific parameters. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18501 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-12-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Central School, project-based learning\" width=\"770\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-12-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-12-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-12-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-12-370x231.jpg 370w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-12-270x169.jpg 270w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-12-740x463.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>C. Test, examine, rethink<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From that, here are our first round products. Here are the insulators that we designed to withstand heat. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18504 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-14-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Central School, project-based learning\" width=\"770\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-14-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-14-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-14-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-14-370x231.jpg 370w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-14-270x169.jpg 270w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-14-740x463.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the way, Allan\u2019s wife was incredibly generous and let him put those insulators in the oven at home. When you put a plastic bag in the oven it doesn\u2019t smell good. It melts.<\/span>\u00a0And students learned it&#8217;s not especially an effective insulator.<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0However, from that experience, each team received a graph full of data. And they were so invested in understanding these graphs and understanding how they related to the model that they had designed. And we had never seen kids dig that deeply into understanding the graph, it was amazing.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So right there was our Math target:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Can you understand that data and what it means?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>D. Next: collaborate and redesign<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next thing they had to do was after they worked in their small groups to understand their design and what elements worked in it, they had to collaborate with the opposite groups. Suddenly they were on new teams that had to deal with the heat and cold.\u00a0They had to work with brand new collaborators in<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0designing an insulator that could withstand both heat and cold. And they dug right in. We have just never seen sixth graders collaborate so genuinely over an academic subject as they did with this design challenge.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They were all invested in understanding each other\u2019s designs, and designing something that could really hit those targets that Allan had laid out for them. Here is one of the models that they created so that their insulator could be recreated by someone else, and you can see real evidence of that collaborative learning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18507 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-16-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Central School project-based learning\" width=\"770\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-16-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-16-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-16-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-16-370x231.jpg 370w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-16-270x169.jpg 270w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-16-740x463.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>E. Growth thanks to data.<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, whereas the Trial One designs were all over the place, by the time we\u2019d gotten down to our Trial Two designs, students had really identified elements using the data from the graphs. They looked at their original designs and identified elements that helped prevent that heat transfer<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. They used: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">their Trial One models;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trial One graphs;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> their new teams;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> their Trial Two Models;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and their Trial Two graphs <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to decide which device was most successful, which insulator was most successful.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Reflections on PBL 2.0<\/h2>\n<h3>&#8220;Practice makes progress&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18509 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-18-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Central School project-based learning\" width=\"770\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-18-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-18-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-18-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-18-370x231.jpg 370w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-18-270x169.jpg 270w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-18-740x463.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can see, we were definitely growing in our knowledge of proficiency-based learning and project based-learning. Again, this was a really engaging activity that kids and parents were talking about.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That was really important to us. Also just the graphing component, digital graphing, that was something new for most of them. This was r<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eally genuine problem solving and collaboration in a really meaningful way.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Truly, we learned as much from these failures as we did these successes. W<\/span>e thought we really hit the <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">design elements of it. Teams realized that this failure informed the learning, which is what we wanted hear from the engineers who designed it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our end result, that summative, really showed their growth. We could use that as a summative assessment, when they had to examine those graphs and identify which insulator was the most efficient and was the best. That was real evidence for us of their understanding, it wasn\u2019t just observational like it was in the first round of project based learning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The data was relevant. It was authentic and informative thinking. So moving forward they had something they wanted <\/span>that sustained inquiry.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notice we have a lot more pluses this time. One our deltas was that teaching and modeling was really challenging and models really didn\u2019t show a lot of growth from the beginning to the end. They were really basic. We decided not to even asses the modeling target.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Students understood how to make a better design<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we go back to our core energy transfer, again, students understood how to make a better design. They understand conduction, convection, reflection. Both concepts we could have gone much deeper in so that they were intentional could explain this is why this model worked and works better than this one. Didn\u2019t get that as well as we\u2019d like to. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was a great opportunity to slow down and do those things. We didn\u2019t take the time to do that, next time we might do it. We might really dig deep into those concepts.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>PBL 3.0: ISS downlink and research videos<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18513 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-21-1024x639.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Central School, project-based learning\" width=\"770\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-21-1024x639.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-21-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-21-768x479.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-21-370x231.jpg 370w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-21-270x168.jpg 270w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-21-740x462.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We were presented with an opportunity based off of some work <\/span>that Allan did<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YRMudQXlMdY\">to have a downlink conversation with astronauts who were actually on the International Space Station<\/a>. WHAT? It was a really powerful experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, this is not an opportunity available to any school in the country; they only do about five or six a year and you apply for it. But there\u2019s also the opportunity through NASA to Skype an astronaut. NASA pretty much guarantees if you give them five or six weeks, they\u2019ll hook you up with genuine astronaut you can Skype in your classroom, which is one of those just motivating things.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We learned from our <\/span>Earth Cam\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">experience (PBL 1.0, above) that even though it was a really cool activity, if we didn\u2019tembed it in a meaningful way&#8230; that\u2019s all it was going to be. We worked really hard to create something that would make this downlink really meaningful. And we came up with a challenge: Can you create a two minute video that engages viewers in the excitement of an experiment that\u2019s taking place on ISS<\/span><b>?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> That\u2019s what the kids were meant to do after.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Launching the project with a NASA REQUEST!<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18514 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-22-1024x602.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Central School project-based learning\" width=\"770\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-22-1024x602.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-22-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-22-768x451.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-22-370x217.jpg 370w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-22-270x159.jpg 270w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-22-740x435.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We needed a really special launch. To help motivate our kids and get them really deeply invested. We knew we had to do something a little different ,and so we tapped into a existing resource: NASA education specialist, Scott Black. It really didn\u2019t take all that much planning, it took about 20 minutes. He Skyped in, did a video conference with our students and asked them the question:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cCan you guys create a video? Can you help NASA out and create this video for us?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Oh boy. Our kids walked away saying, \u201cNASA needs us! So we\u2019re there!\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Learning targets 3.0<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18515 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-23-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Central School project-based learning\" width=\"770\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-23-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-23-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-23-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-23-370x231.jpg 370w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-23-270x169.jpg 270w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-23-740x463.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Again,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we wanted to be really intentional about our design and not just have this be a really cool activity but how to be grounded in a learning that we wanted them to be doing. Understanding testable questions in science, using that technology responsibly. \u00a0Then there\u2019s a humanities target too.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>PBL Management &#8211; \u201cit\u2019s not laissez-faire\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-25.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18517 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-25-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Central School project-based learning\" width=\"770\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-25-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-25-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-25-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-25-370x231.jpg 370w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-25-270x169.jpg 270w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-25-740x463.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We set this wonderful project up, and then we couldn&#8217;t just step back and not do anything. There was a lot of teacher management that went into it. There was a lot of student-directed learning. The students had lot of choice. They had a lot of choice in this project. But Allan and I grouped them really intentionally to have supportive peer relationships. They had to do a lot of critiquing and a lot of revising to make sure that it was a worthy product. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allan and I set up a lot of opportunities and a lot of touch points for them. Sometimes it was peer-to-peer, and sometimes it was peer-to-teacher, and sometimes it was just check-pointing against some of those standards, some of those scales. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We helped our students manage their time because these were genuine public products that they were going to present at open house. It really was a driver for our students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Charlie and William: Cool Flames\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a5-QV9oIT94?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seemingly, a little different than our product from the first one<\/span><b>.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Pretty excited about those \u2013there are 20 of them. Let\u2019s just say we\u2019re excited. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Reflection on PBL 3.0<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-28.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18520 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-28-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Central School project-based learninb\" width=\"770\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-28-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-28-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-28-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-28-370x231.jpg 370w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-28-270x169.jpg 270w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-28-740x463.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Again they loved it, the parents loved it, we loved it. It was so much fun to do.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We had the voice, the choice.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They really built skills in a genuine way, and asked wonderful questions.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think we turned something that could have been just a dessert or appetizer downlink into a project that had genuine learning with it.\u00a0<\/span>We saw growth in all the targets<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that we had set out in this project and that was because of our intentionality around how we built it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Especially the collaboration and the <\/span>ability to solve problems.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those public products got so much feedback and the kids were so proud of that and so invested in them.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have a lot of students who are now talking about career options; I could do something with this.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Next steps: Keep talking with scientists<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we think about it this year our big challenge is to go deep in the science. We couldn\u2019t have <\/span>the in-depth conversation we wanted<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but we did discover that, there\u2019s another <\/span>program, &#8220;Skype with a Scientist&#8221;<b>.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> With about two to three weeks warning you could identify a scientist in the life sciences and connect with them. That\u2019s what we&#8217;re going to do. <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>We will take each individual group, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">they can connect with them. Have one on one conversations saying \u201cthis is <\/span>what I think, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t understand this\u201d We\u2019re going to try to leverage that technology in that way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019d really take that opportunity to slow down, go deep into learning and take advantage of their genuine interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-29.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18519 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-29-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Central School project-based learning\" width=\"770\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-29-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-29-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-29-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-29-370x231.jpg 370w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-29-270x169.jpg 270w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/slide-29-740x463.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A Tale of Three Projects&#8221; Two Vermont educators share how they measure success with project-based learning units&#8230; in space! Allan Miller and Natasha Grey, two educators from Charlotte Central School, Charlotte VT, shared their journey towards authentic, meaningful, engaging project-based learning. The &#8220;Gold Standard&#8221; in project-based learning. 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