PBLWorks

For A Teacher Professional Development Portal On Online Project Based Learning

  • Amount
    $400,000
  • Program
  • Date Awarded
    11/15/2011
  • Term
    18.0 Months
  • Type of Support
    Project
Overview
The Buck Institute for Education is dedicated to improving twenty-first-century teaching and learning worldwide by creating and disseminating products, practices, and knowledge for effective project-based learning. This project proposes the creation and evaluation of an online professional development portal (PBLU.org) that will knit together existing and new content about project-based learning and Web technology. This will build teachers’ capacities to create, plan, conduct, and assess high-quality project-based learning, with a focus on deeper learning and the Common Core State Standards. It also will encourage teachers to build a free library of high-quality, classroom-proven projects, as well as to create and sustain a professional community dedicated to these teaching methods.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.bie.org 
Address
3 Hamilton Landing Suite 220, Novato, CA, 94949, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for an equity centered leadership development program  
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)
for designing a performance assessment system and content platform for OER PBL curricular units  
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)
for business planning and organizational redesign  
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.

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