Entries by Jennifer

Your First Project: Insights from Teachers new to PBL (Podcast)

Are you planning to launch your very first project-based experience in the 2022-2023 school year? I imagine you must be both incredibly excited and incredibly nervous at the same time.  That’s exactly how Michelle Willis, Dave Sheehan and Mike Wnek (pictured above) felt when launching their first project, ‘Suenos Unidos’ with learners in the 2021-2022 school year.   […]

How are we Evaluating Ourselves? : BIG Questions Institute

It’s been energizing to see all of the conversations of late regarding a truly different approach to student evaluation, one that doesn’t include grades. The problems with grades are many, and they have been articulated countless of times, most notably by Alfie Kohn. Now, finally, we have groups like Teachers Going Gradeless and books like Ungrading to point the way […]