Facilitate PBL ($1,400)

For teachers, coaches, school and district leaders.

This introductory workshop gives participants the knowledge and skills to select, contextualize, and implement a pre-planned project. The workshop focuses on Project Based Teaching Practices and the skills necessary to facilitate projects in their classrooms. Participants will experience many activities built into projects, explore all provided project resources, and have ample planning time. Each participant will leave with a robust, personalized project implementation plan and readiness to facilitate high-quality PBL.

As a result of this service, you will: 

• Identify the Project Based Teaching Practices within a PBL project unit.
• Select and unpack a PBLWorks TEACH project unit for implementation.
• Plan how to implement a project to best support your students.
   

This three-day workshop is a blend of direct instruction, video analysis, hands-on work, resource sharing, and peer collaboration and feedback. Your workshop will be facilitated by PBLWorks National Faculty members—all seasoned teachers, administrators, and coaches who are PBL experts.

Design PBL ($1,400) 

For teachers, coaches, school and district leaders.

Rooted in our model of Gold Standard PBL, this reimagined PBL 101 workshop equips educators with the tools to design rigorous, standards-based projects that are personally relevant to their students and deeply connected to their communities. It models the Project-Based Learning process and how teachers might facilitate it in their classrooms. Each participant will learn the teaching practices needed to facilitate high-quality PBL and leave with a project ready to be implemented in their classroom.

In this workshop, you will:

• Develop a personal vision for how Gold Standard PBL serves students and their communities.
• Plan Gold Standard projects that teach meaningful learning goals and are relevant to students and their communities.
• Integrate learner-centered practices, driven by sustained inquiry, throughout the project.

This three-day workshop is a blend of direct instruction, video analysis, hands-on work, resource sharing, and peer collaboration and feedback. Your workshop will be facilitated by PBLWorks National Faculty members—all seasoned teachers, administrators, and coaches who are PBL experts.

Deepen PBL: Equity & Gold Standard PBL ($1,400)

For teachers, coaches, school and district leaders 
Prerequisite: Facilitate PBL (formerly TEACH Deep Dive) or Design PBL (formerly PBL 101) 

Deepen PBL Workshops are three-day sessions that provide experienced PBL practitioners with in-depth instruction on PBLWorks Gold Standard Project Based Teaching Practices. 

In this workshop, you will explore critical considerations for fostering equity in the PBL classroom. You will reflect on your own identity and mindset related to equity. You will refine a project design with educational equity in mind and plan for project implementation with an eye toward creating meaningful, challenging, and culturally relevant learning experiences for all learners, particularly those historically marginalized by our educational system. You should come to this workshop with a draft project design that you will reflect on and refine throughout the experience.

In this workshop, you will:

• Develop and implement strategies and practices for learning about students, their families, and communities and use that learning to inform PBL design and facilitation.
• Provide a balance of challenge and support via cognitively demanding tasks and appropriate scaffolds so that all students are able to access deep levels of inquiry.
• Identify key literacy skills and make a plan to support them in order to help students access content/learning and deepen students’ ability to communicate within and across disciplines.
• Co-create a learning community where students have the opportunity to shape the direction of the process and products as appropriate for the task, content, and age level of the students.
  
  This three-day workshop is a blend of direct instruction, video analysis, hands-on work, resource sharing, and peer collaboration and feedback. Your workshop will be facilitated by PBLWorks National Faculty members—all seasoned teachers, administrators, and coaches who are PBL experts.

Deepen PBL: Improving the Quality of Student Work ($1,400)

For teachers, coaches, school and district leaders 
Prerequisite: Facilitate PBL (formerly TEACH Deep Dive) or Design PBL (formerly PBL 101) 

Deepen PBL Workshops are three-day sessions that provide experienced PBL practitioners with in-depth instruction on PBLWorks Gold Standard Project Based Teaching Practices.

In this engaging and interactive workshop, you will investigate and apply teaching practices and strategies that can help to strengthen the quality of student work in a PBL classroom. You will develop and reflect on a high-quality project, and will plan for project implementation in order to improve student products and enhance learning.

This Deepen PBL workshop focuses on four teaching practices of Gold Standard PBL: Align to Standards; Scaffold Student Learning; Engage & Coach; and Assess Student Learning.

In this workshop, you will:

• Align projects to significant content and skills
• Scaffold students’ capacity to think critically
• Use learner-centered coaching practices to help all students grow
• Facilitate effective critique and revision processes
• Build a culture of quality work and rigorous thinking
   

This three-day workshop is a blend of direct instruction, video analysis, hands-on work, resource sharing, and peer collaboration and feedback. Your workshop will be facilitated by PBLWorks National Faculty members—all seasoned teachers, administrators, and coaches who are PBL experts.

Deepen PBL: Advanced Practice ($1,400) 

For experienced PBL teachers, instructional coaches, and school and district leaders
Prerequisite: Facilitate PBL (formerly TEACH Deep Dive), Design PBL (formerly PBL 101) or equivalent experience with Gold Standard PBL  

This brand new, three-day workshop allows for experienced PBL educators to engage in multiple deep dives into special topics including: AI & PBL, supporting multilingual learners, assessing student learning, and building interdisciplinary projects. Participants bring a project and apply a new lens to it each day, collaborating with peers to strengthen their work. Everyone leaves with a stronger project and strategies ready to use in their classroom, school, or district.

This three-day workshop is unlike other PBL World workshops. You will pre-select multiple one-day topics to cover, and your workshop cohort may change day-to-day based on your selection. Each daily workshop will be facilitated by PBLWorks National Faculty members—all seasoned teachers, administrators, and coaches who are PBL experts. You may have different National Faculty facilitators each day!

Coach PBL ($1,400)

For instructional coaches, school and district leaders 
Prerequisite: Design PBL (formerly PBL 101) or equivalent experience with Gold Standard PBL  

Deepen your expertise as a PBL instructional coach or leader by engaging in this three-day experience where you will create a PBL Coaching Toolkit to help you support teachers with the implementation of Gold Standard PBL.

In this workshop, you will:

• Deepen understanding of best practices for coaching teachers in each phase of the PBL Coaching Cycle. 
• Engage together as a community of learners to develop a coaching toolkit to support teachers with PBL implementation. 

This three-day workshop is a blend of direct instruction, video analysis, hands-on work, resource sharing, and peer collaboration and feedback. Your workshop will be facilitated by PBLWorks National Faculty members—all seasoned teachers, administrators, and coaches who are PBL experts.

Lead PBL ($1,400) 

For teams of school and district leaders  
Requirement: Due to the workshop's collaborative nature, participants must attend as part of a school or district leadership team of 3-4 participants, including the principal or superintendent.  

Dive in with your leadership team to learn how to grow the conditions needed for Gold Standard PBL to thrive in your system. Considering your current reality, you will design a customized strategy to launch or advance Project Based Learning in your unique setting. Due to the workshop's collaborative nature, participants must attend as a school or district leadership team that includes the principal or Superintendent. Both new and experienced practitioners of PBL are welcome.

In this workshop, teams will:

• Deepen understanding of Gold Standard PBL as an equity-centered approach to teaching and learning.
• Assess their school’s current reality for PBL.
• Identify and address a key PBL implementation challenge.
• Identify key action steps for implementing PBL in their school or district.
• Engage together as a community of leaders and learners to lead the changes needed to scale Gold Standard PBL in their district/school.

This three-day workshop is a blend of direct instruction, video analysis, hands-on work, resource sharing, and peer collaboration and feedback. Your workshop will be facilitated by PBLWorks National Faculty members—all seasoned teachers, administrators, and coaches who are PBL experts.

SEL in PBL ($300) 

For teachers, coaches, school and district leaders

This one-day workshop provides an overview of PBL as a transformative approach to social and emotional learning (SEL). Participants will reflect on how Transformative Social Emotional Learning is a lever for equity in PBL by lifting identity, agency, belonging, curiosity, and collaborative decision-making in student projects.

In this workshop, you will learn how to:

• Describe the connection between the development of SEL competencies and Gold Standard PBL.
• Articulate the attributes of Transformative SEL.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen SEL competencies through Transformative SEL within a project.

This one-day workshop is a blend of direct instruction, video analysis, hands-on work, resource sharing, and peer collaboration and feedback. Your workshop will be facilitated by PBLWorks National Faculty members—all seasoned teachers, administrators, and coaches who are PBL experts.

Experience PBL: Making Space for Change ($300)

For teachers, coaches, school and district leaders

Experience what it’s like to be a learner in Project Based Learning by engaging in an immersive one-day experience—a “slice” of a project. The driving question for this Project Slice is, “How can we redesign a public space to promote a social benefit?” Each team focuses on creating a plan for a public space (park, library, etc.) that facilitates a different goal, such as increasing opportunities for civil and democratic discourse or enhancing public health and physical fitness.

In this workshop, you will:

• Understand what it is like to engage in PBL as a learner
• Experience the four phases of a project.
• Connect the Project Slice to current classroom practice.
• Build on learning to develop a vision for future classroom practice.

This one-day workshop is a blend of direct instruction, video analysis, hands-on work, resource sharing, and peer collaboration and feedback. Your workshop will be facilitated by PBLWorks National Faculty members—all seasoned teachers, administrators, and coaches who are PBL experts.

Experience PBL: Sustainable Future ($300) 

For teachers, coaches, school and district leaders

Experience what it’s like to be a learner in Project Based Learning by engaging in an immersive one-day experience—a “slice” of a project. The driving question for this Project Slice is, “How do we manage shared resources for a sustainable future?” Teams explore and apply economic and environmental science theories related to the “commons.” They create case study presentations focused on local and global situations where individuals' needs conflict with the collective's and present possible solutions to these challenges.

In this workshop, you will:

• Understand what it is like to engage in PBL as a learner
• Experience the four phases of a project
• Connect the Project Slice to current classroom practice
• Build on learning to develop a vision for future classroom practice

This one-day workshop is a blend of direct instruction, video analysis, hands-on work, resource sharing, and peer collaboration and feedback. Your workshop will be facilitated by PBLWorks National Faculty members—all seasoned teachers, administrators, and coaches who are PBL experts.

Experience PBL: The Art of Persuasion ($300)

For teachers, coaches, school and district leaders

Experience what it’s like to be a learner in Project Based Learning by engaging in an immersive one-day experience—a “slice” of a project. The driving question for this Project Slice is, “How can we inspire people to create change?” Teams create a persuasive visual design for a marketing/ social media campaign for an issue they care about. They research their topics, analyze mentor texts, and learn how to use rhetorical appeals to craft a compelling and effective message. 

In this workshop, you will:

• Understand what it is like to engage in PBL as a learner
• Experience the four phases of a project
• Connect the Project Slice to current classroom practice
• Build on learning to develop a vision for future classroom practice

This one-day workshop is a blend of direct instruction, video analysis, hands-on work, resource sharing, and peer collaboration and feedback. Your workshop will be facilitated by PBLWorks National Faculty members—all seasoned teachers, administrators, and coaches who are PBL experts.

Experience PBL: Storytime Channel ($300)

For Early Childhood Educators (Ages 3-8)

This Project Slice is tailored explicitly for early childhood educators working with our youngest learners (ages 3-8), with all lessons, resources, and activities carefully crafted to suit this age group's developmental needs and interests.

Participants will experience what it’s like to be a learner in Project Based Learning, by engaging in an immersive one-day PBL experience — a “slice” of a project. In this Project Slice, participants explore the driving question, “How can we make stories come alive?” Teams will create engaging productions of familiar fairy tales for a collaborative Storytime Channel.

In this workshop, you will:

• Understand what it is like to engage in PBL as a learner
• Experience the four phases of a project
• Connect the Project Slice to current classroom practice
• Build on learning to develop a vision for future classroom practice

This one-day workshop is a blend of direct instruction, video analysis, hands-on work, resource sharing, and peer collaboration and feedback. Your workshop will be facilitated by PBLWorks National Faculty members—all seasoned teachers, administrators, and coaches who are PBL experts.