In this first part of the PBL adventure we’ll focus on getting you introduced to the course, your instructors and your fellow learners, and kicking off your PBL journey! Choose a subcategory to get the conversations started!

Our goal is to imagine and reimagine the world we live in , particularly in light of the work we do in education. We want to think about what high school could be. This “could be” is rooted in the values and practices that we’ll explore as we go along.

In this constellation, we will explore one methodology that can manifest change and sits at the core of project based learning: inquiry.

We can talk all we want about setting up an environment that is conducive to inquiry, but that leaves a huge variable: the students. Learning, or at least the kind of learning that we hope our students will do, needs to involve some amount of guidance. But what does that guidance look like? And how much do we need to engage?

It’s one thing to talk about the structure of PBL, but it’s another thing entirely to bring that structure into your classroom and engage in that paradigm shift towards student-led educational practices. In this section, we zoom in a little closer to consider how to go from thinking about PBL in broad strokes to actually getting PBL off the ground.

In this last constellation, we’re going to make some space for you to throw down a few ideas and sketch out a project of your own. We hope that you create something that can eventually fit into your class curriculum, but we also want you to push against any constraints or challenges that you think might keep you from getting there.