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Two Questions: Grades and Student Created Learning Outcomes
Today I had the opportunity to participate in a webinar hosted by AJ Juliani. While I will never get used to presenting to a completely quiet room, I am very thankful to the lively group and the awesome questions they posted in the chat. There were two questions I…
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#HackingPBL Birthday Giveaway!
Each year, we have the extreme honor of working with educators from all over the globe as they implement project based practices. To say thank you and celebrate the third birthday of Hacking Project Based Learning: 10 Easy Steps to PBL and Inquiry in the Classroom, we are hosting…
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Constructing a Mini-Lesson: A 4 Part Framework
When my oldest daughter was four, she went through a dinosaur phase. All dinosaurs, all the time; it was impossible to discuss anything else. Throughout the year, we traveled as a family and she learned to read. Slowly, her interests began to broaden and develop, and now at the…
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13 Tips To Improve Student Conferencing and Feedback #HackingPBL
I can’t clone you. I know you have 30 (sometimes more) kids in your class at a time and spending even 5 minutes with each individually would take an entire week of instructional time. What I can tell you, without reservation, is this time investment is worth it. Countless…
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Chaos Coordinator #HackingPBL
This weekend I return to Los Angeles to collaborate with the teachers of LA Unified School District. Last time I was there, they gifted me a shirt that says, “Chaos Coordinator.” This got me thinking about the ways we coordinate the chaos in a PBL classroom. Here are four…
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Learning Lounge – PD The Relaxing Way
On a Sunday afternoon in early winter, you walk through the front door of your local bookstore. As you warm your hands and stomp the fresh snow off your feet, you glance around the store at your fellow patrons: a teenager curled up in a comfy chair reading a…
