Courtesy of Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action

We all know that teaching is a difficult job. Becoming a good teacher with student-centered, inquiry driven PBL curriculum is uniquely difficult—but it gets easier over time. In my nine years as a teacher and five years as instructional coach, I have learned some basic “teacher moves” that consistently help teachers using PBL improve.