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Hands-on Professional Development: The Key to Helping Educators Develop PBL

A New Jersey superintendent shares her successful strategy for introducing educators to project-based learning.

Top Rated PBL Tool Grows Problem-Solving Skills

The performance tasks are extremely thorough, result in student products, and cover key concepts in science and math.

Girls Can Be STEM Champions!

Don’t miss this report: The Complex Data on Girls in STEM in The Atlantic Daily. The new National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) measured students’ ability to think through problems systematically, using technology and engineering to […]

How to Create an Engaging Lesson that Infuses Literacy and STEM

Two elementary school teachers explain how they infused literacy and STEM to create an engaging lesson that improved their students' problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. 

Last year, Lake Lehman School District (Lehman, PA) created an […]

Hands-on Training Model Shows Teachers the Power of PBL

A New Jersey district uses a train-the-trainer model to introduce educators to project-based learning.

If you had walked into a Hopatcong Borough School District classroom two years ago, you likely would have seen students seated quietly, with a […]

Teacher's Best Practices for PBL

Project-based learning (PBL) is a trend that’s spreading faster than a wildfire during a drought. Why? Because research on PBL proves that it increases student engagement and achievement, and helps students develop the 21^st-century skills they […]

4 Content Considerations for Educational Leaders

By Dr. David Reese, Ed. D.

In my research to learn about what attributes school systems envision for their future graduates, I’ve found that content applications were a constant based upon academic standards. However, many systems focused on how […]

3 Ways to Prepare Educators to Teach PBL

Passion is a driving force in all facets of life, especially teaching and learning. Learning in Community Consolidated School District 59 (CCSD59) in the Chicago suburbs reflects the actual work being done in the world, empowers the learner, solves […]

How District Leaders Are Revamping the Curriculum to Better Prepare Students for the Real World