In his Edutopia blog, Andrew Miller discusses designing project-based learning (PBL) successfully for math, with special attention to curriculum standards. Miller is a consultant for the Buck Institute for Education, an organization that specializes in project-based curriculum. He also creates curriculum and instruction at Giant Campus, which seeks to create 21st-century learners using PBL in an online environment.

In his Edutopia blog, Bob Lenz, cofounder of Envisions Schools in San Francisco, California, shares tips on how to increase the number of students and teachers engaged in project-based learning and performance assessment, including encouraging teachers to adapt their current work to give it a more performance-based flavor. 

In this Edutopia blog post, Don Doehla, French teacher and instructional coach at Vintage High School in Napa, California, shares some great ideas for meeting and beating challenges around teaching world languages, including the use of project-based learning, with a nod toward to the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and authentic assessments, student engagement, collaboration, critical thinking, a

Six schools in Whitfield County Schools (Georgia, U.S.) are in their second year of a transition to project-based learning (PBL).

This feature in THE Journal profiles a middle school in Ohio that, after receiving a modest technology grant, began deploying mobile devices and traditional computers in classrooms and labs–a project that has included ind-depth development for teachrees that focused on problem solving, project-based learning, and student engagement.

This Edutopia classroom guide is intended to inspire and expand your thinking about effective assessment for project-based learning. The tips are organized to follow the arc of a project. First comes planning, then the launch into active learning, and then a culminating presentation. Reflection is the final stage.

This guest post to the Edutopia blog by Thom Markham, former director of the Buck Institute for Education, discusses how to realize the potential of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education in the modern era–namely, by teaching knowing and doing, allowing for creativity, making teamwork central, and, starting with questions.

This article from ASCD’s Educational Leadership presents best practices for effective project-based learning, noting two key criteria: First, students must perceive the work as personally meaningful, as a task that matters and that they want to do well. Second, a meaningful project fulfills an educational purpose.