Pbl In Practice

Join us as ELA teacher @melteets breaks down how she makes non-fiction engaging using conspiracies and documentaries! She shares how she uses curriculum maps and purposefully designs for student centered learning.

Did you know most Americans are on average only 45 mins away from a National Park? How might you use local and state parks to create dynamic projects? Tune in as we chat with @saintfester on how he has combined his work with National Parks with PBL! Check out his site for Park Based Learning @parkbasedlearn or festeredu.com

Join us for our chat with Janel Brown, Founding Deputy Executive Director of Sustainable Futures, a public charter in DC combining PBL with competency- based learning for youth often furthest from opportunity. She keeps it real with us about the challenges and triumphs of their 'Year 1' and her thoughts on how PBL is the solution for reaching this population. Follow her @eatprayeducate and Sustainable Futures @sfpcsdc!

Tune in to hear from Physical Education All-Stars Ryan Gordy and Adam Hughes as they share how they have totally transformed your typical P.E. Class into a PBL course through their Experience Education curriculum. Listen to how they use PBL to reduce the social anxiety often associated with P.E. Class! Follow @coachgordy #PBL

Dr. Kelvin Bullock, Executive Director of Equity Affairs, talks with us about using PBL as a tool for equity, and how to avoid pitfalls when trying to make a project culturally relevant. You can keep up with him on twitter @dps_equity or @dkelvinb! Tune in and subscribe!

Math expert Telannia Norfar breaks down how she combines her field experiences from her non-traditional path to teaching with her insatiable love for PBL to create math projects that actually simulate the real world! She gives us a glimpse into her classroom and also into her forthcoming book "Modeling Mathmatics in PBL". Keep up with Telannia on Twitter: @thnorfar or through her interactive blog www.PBL-birdside@blogspot.com !

Andre Daughty talks to us about encouraging new PBL teachers, his first project and his class of 70 (yes you read that right... SEVENTY!) students. He dives into how he encouraged reluctant students to connect with local history, and pushed new PBL teachers to realize what their students could do! Tune in! You can follow Andre @andredaughty on Twitter.

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