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Strategy Guides
Norms are the agreed upon rules that build a productive, self-driven, and respectful culture. These norms, especially when co-created with students, can serve as the “north star” or guiding philosophy for all that happens in a classroom.
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Rubrics
2021 Research-Based Collaboration Rubrics
A high school teacher uses strategies such as collaborative grouping, service learning, and interdisciplinary curriculum with her class of English Language Learners to improve English/native language fluency and critical thinking skills in this video
Other Videos
A teacher uses strategies to improve English/native language fluency and critical thinking skills.
This video highlights a rubric in tube form called a Tubric which is a great collaborative tool to help your students create their own Driving Questions for their projects
Other Videos
A great collaborative tool to help teachers and students create Driving Questions.
This video features High Tech Middle Media Arts students and staff collaborate with French filmmakers to create animation shorts about the Mexico and U.S. border.
Project Videos
Middle school arts project: animated shorts about the Mexico and U.S. border.
This video features students at High Tech High using creative thinking and collaborative work to connect the classroom with the real world while developing 21st Century skills in mixed ability teams.
Other Videos
Students use creative thinking and collaborative work to connect the classroom with the real world while developing 21st Century skills
Planning Tools
Use this tool to plan for thoughtful collaboration with industry and community partners.
In this video Da Vinci Academy alumni explain how PBL prepared them for their future.
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Da Vinci Academy alumni explain how PBL prepared them for their future.
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Other Videos
Essential elements of PBL, 21st century competencies, differences from traditional teaching.
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Planning Tools
Frame the DQ's initial words, person or entity, action or challenge, and audience/purpose.
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Strategy Guides
Effective preparation for presentations helps students build project management, collaboration, and communication skills and ensures that their presentations are high-quality and impactful.
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Strategy Guides
As students work together on projects, they learn valuable skills for collaborating, managing group dynamics and conflict, and building on one another’s strengths.
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Strategy Guides
Effective teams require us to think carefully about the kind of work students will be doing throughout the project. What outcomes are most important? How can we utilize teams so students effectively reach those outcomes?
Project Videos
In this 8th grade ELA project, students in San Gabriel, California work together to develop a quality-controlled fan fiction website for other middle schoolers.
Teacher Sara Lev leads her transitional kindergarten students in an Interdisciplinary project in this video
Project Videos
PBLWorks Project Videos 2018: Transitional Kindergarten - Interdisciplinary.
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Blog
Ideas for developing relationships, co-creating norms, practicing protocols and establishing routines, and designing a classroom conducive to PBL.
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Rubrics
2021 Research-Based Complex Communication Rubrics
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Rubrics
2021 Research-Based Self-Directed Learning Rubrics
Rubrics
2022 Research-Based Creativity Rubrics
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Planning Tools
This planning template can be used to design your next PBL project.