Appendix C: Teacher Toolbox
C.1 General PBL resources
- Teacher Talks Podcast: PBL with Jenny Pieratt, Teaching Channel
- God Save the Routine: Debunking 5 PBL myths, ASCD
- Assessment and other Dirty Words in PBL, Teaching Channel
- 3 Simple Steps to Project Ideation, Teaching Channel
- Deciding When PBL Makes Sense for your Year, Teaching Channel
- Small but Mighty: Voice and Choice in PBL, Teaching Channel
- Getting Ready for the PBL Paradigm Shift, Getting Smart
- Differentiation in PBL, Buck Institute for Education
- The Power of Collaboration in PBL, Project Foundry
- Using Infographics in PBL, Infogram
- Getting Started with Place Based Learning, Getting Smart
- Using Infographics to get to Deeper Learning, Piktochart
- Deeper Learning through BYOD, Edsurge
- Real World Work and Career Readiness, P21
- 3 Steps to Successful Student Collaboration, Teaching Channel
- 5 Tips for Painless Prototyping, ASCD
C.2 Lenses for Looking At Student Work
- New Tech Network’s Project Quality Checklist
- BIE’s Essential Project Design Elements Checklist
- Expeditionary Learning’s Attributes of High Quality Work:
- Getting Smart’s HQpbl framework:
C.3 Exemplar Projects
- PBLU Pick a Project
- Models of Excellence: The Center for High Quality Student Work
- High Tech High Student Projects
- Deeper Learning Lesson
- DreamUp Space Curriculum
C.4 Expert Rubrics
Resource C.4 Expert Rubrics
- New Tech Network Elementary Rubrics, New Tech Network
- New tech Network Middle School Rubric, My.PBLworks
- PBLworks All Resources, New Tech Network
C.5 Student Learning Protocols
C.6 Project Launch Resources
- 3 Tips for Project Launch , New Tech Network
- How to Get Projects Off to a Good Start, Edutopia
- Using the Need to Know List to Support Gold Standard PBL Teaching, PBLWorks
- Foundational Strategies
- Integrating the QFT in the PBL Launch, Right Question Institute
C.7 Exhibiting Student Work
- Share Your Learning, Exhibition, Share You Learning
- From Open House to PBL Exhibition Night, My.PBLWorks
- Benefits of Making Student Work Public (Deeper Learning), Teaching Channel
- CrafteED Curriculum
C.8 Field Work
- CraftED Curriculum
- Teacahing Empathy Through Place-Based Education, Getting Smart
- Design Thinking, Empathy, and Equity, Teaching Channel
- Design thinking, empathy, and Equity – Part 2, Teaching Channel
C.9 Parent Communication
- 4 Tips for Parent Communication in PBL, Teaching Channel
- Parent PBl Quick Guide
- HQPBL for Parents {in Spanish}, Desescolarizados-La red para familias que educan sin escuela
C.10 PBL Professional Development:
- 5 Steps for Sustaining PBL, Getting Smart
- Critical Friends; Developing a Culture of Collaboration, Teaching Channel, ASCD Smartbrief
- 4 Ingredients for the PD Revolution, Getting Smart
- Scaling High Quality PBL, Getting Smart
- Getting Started with PBL: Do ONE Thing Well, Teaching Channel