PBLWorks

PBLWorks builds capacity among teachers, school leaders, and school system leaders to design, implement, and facilitate impactful and equitable project-based learning (PBL), a deeper learning instructional approach in which students work collaboratively to investigate rigorous, authentic, and complex challenges aligned to grade level and subject area standards. This grant is an organizational effectiveness grant that will support the development of a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) senior leadership development pathways program. (Sub-strategy: Content Tools and Services)

PBLWorks builds capacity among teachers, school leaders, and school system leaders to design, implement, and facilitate project-based learning (PBL), an instructional approach in which students work collaboratively to investigate rigorous, authentic, and complex challenges aligned to grade level and subject area standards. To achieve this, PBLWorks is designing and delivering Open Educational Resource (OER) PBL units, paired with professional development and enabled by an online platform. This grant supports strategic planning and the generation of an aligned performance assessment system for these PBL units. (Substrategy: Content Tools and Services)

PBLWorks (Buck Institute for Education) builds capacity among teachers, school leaders, and school systems to design, implement, and facilitate project-based learning, an instructional approach in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate an authentic, complex challenge. This grant will support strategic planning and analyses of business, financial, and organizational implications to create and share project-based learning curricula.