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Looking to schedule your own workshop to launch PBL with your teachers and staff? You've come to the right place. We bring high-quality Project Based Learning to in-person and online workshops, for schools and districts across the country. Services include: 

Project Slice

A Project Slice demonstrates what it’s like to be a learner in Project Based Learning by engaging participants in an immersive one-day PBL experience—a “slice” of a project. 

The Art of Persuasion(Available in-person or online)

The driving question for this Project Slice workshop is, “How can we inspire people to create change?” Participants work together in teams to create a persuasive visual design for a marketing/social media campaign about an issue that is important to them. They research their topics, analyze mentor texts, and learn how to use rhetorical appeals to craft a compelling and effective message.

Community Voices(Available in-person)

This place-based Project Slice is centered around the question, “How can I move others to action using evidence?” Teams explore quantitative and qualitative data about the community, venturing out into the “field” to investigate local realities. Through interviews and quantitative data analysis, they collect the stories of diverse community members, constructing a multifaceted portrait of the region. Teams use these interviews and visual data to create a digital presentation that showcases their learning and highlights a community issue for the city council to address. This workshop is best suited to sites where participants have walkable access to a populated center, such as a downtown commercial district.

Making Space for Change (Available in-person)

Participants in this Project Slice explore the driving question, “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. This workshop requires access to physical space within or near the school that can be the focus of the redesign.

Sustainable Future (Available in-person or online)

The driving question for this Project Slice workshop 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 in which the needs of individuals conflict with the needs of the collective and present possible solutions to these challenges.

The Storytime Channel (Available in person after July 1, 2025)

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. This workshop is specifically tailored 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.

SEL in PBL

Reflect on ways in which Transformative Social Emotional Learning (SEL) serves as a lever for equity by lifting up identity, agency, belonging, curiosity, and collaborative decision-making for students in Project Based Learning. Participants will then reflect on a project to consider how they might integrate SEL competencies more robustly into the project design.

PBL Quickstart (Available after May 1, 2025)

Embark on your PBL journey! In this workshop, participants will discover why PBL should be the main course, not just the dessert. By exploring a Project Blueprint from our Project Library, participants will gain a deeper understanding of the elements that make Project Based Learning successful, from its structure to Core Routines that build culture and deepen student learning.

PBL 101

This is our foundational workshop, based on our model of Gold Standard PBL. It gives participants the knowledge and skills to develop or adapt a rigorous, standards-based project to implement in their classroom—our PBL 101 models the Project-Based Learning process and how teachers might facilitate it in their classrooms. Participants will learn to set norms, facilitate inquiry, and foster collaborative conversations. Each participant will leave with a project ready to be implemented in their classroom and the teaching practices to facilitate high-quality PBL.

Sustained Support Visits

This service, facilitated by a member of our National Faculty, helps to ensure that all teachers deepen their ability to implement a Gold Standard project by reflecting on and strengthening the Essential Project Design Elements and Project Based Teaching Practices in their PBL classroom. Sustained Support Visits are designed to provide focused support for teachers to implement projects effectively.

Teacher Online Consultancies

This service provides a series of consultancy sessions for teachers during the implementation of their project with “just in time” guidance and resources from our expert National Faculty. Teacher Online Consultancy is a package of 20 hours, available in 30 or 60-minute sessions for individuals or small teams (maximum of four).

Project Design Consulting

Project Design Consulting builds the capacity of teachers who have participated in PBL 101 to develop a deeper understanding of how to design high-quality projects based on the Gold Standard Seven Essential Design Elements. In individual or team meetings, National Faculty offer targeted expert consulting anchored in up to two specific Design Elements using the Project Design Rubric.

Celebration of Learning

In this culminating workshop, teachers will be introduced to the power of collegial teacher reflection and sharing. Participants are guided through a scaffolded process for reflecting on and sharing their learning about Project Based Teaching with colleagues. They will celebrate project implementation successes, share lessons learned, and identify areas where they want to continue growing. Throughout the workshop, participants will consider how their PBL practice can support educational equity and improve outcomes for the learners in their classrooms.

PBL 201– Equity & Gold Standard PBL

In this three-day workshop, participants will explore critical considerations for fostering equity in the PBL classroom. Participants will reflect on their own identities and mindsets related to equity. Participants 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. 

PBL 201– Improving the Quality of Student Work

In the three-day workshop, participants will investigate and deepen specific teaching practices and strategies that can help strengthen student work quality in your PBL classroom. Participants will revise and reflect on a project and plan for project implementation to improve student products and enhance learning.

PBL 201: Learner-Centered Assessment

In this three-day workshop, participants will elevate their assessment practices within Project Based Learning (PBL). Participants will work with existing units or new project blueprints provided by PBLWorks to enhance and refine the assessment components through the lens of our PBL Equity Levers. Participants will focus on identifying success criteria, creating rubrics aligned with key learning goals and success skills, and using formative assessment tools to foster feedback and reflection throughout a project.

PBL Coaching

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.

Leadership Jumpstart

Designed for school and district leaders (principals, assistant principals, deans, department heads, grade level leaders, and others responsible for instructional coaching) to learn how to prepare and support teachers who engage in PBL 101 to more effectively  implement Gold Standard PBL in their classrooms. Consisting of two 90-minute sessions, this workshop is to be scheduled in conjunction with PBL 101.

PBL Leadership

Dive in with your leadership team and learn how to grow the conditions needed for Gold Standard Project Based Learning to thrive in your system. In consideration of your current reality, you will design a customized strategy to launch or advance Project Based Learning in your unique setting. 

Due to the collaborative nature of the workshop, participants are required to attend as a team of 3–4  individuals. Both new and experienced practitioners of PBL are welcome.

PBL Classroom Walkthroughs

PBL Classroom Walkthroughs build the capacity of school leaders or instructional coaches to develop a deeper understanding of what Gold Standard Project Based Teaching Practices look like in action. In one-day walkthroughs, National Faculty offer targeted expert consulting focused on 1–3 specific PBL Teaching Practices identified in advance by the school leader or instructional coach.

Interested in services?

We’d love to connect with you and explore options for bringing PBL to your school through in-person or online workshops. Whether this is your first workshop, or you are looking for continued support, we have options available and are looking forward to discussing more! We're here to answer your questions and discuss all the details. 

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