by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Project Based Learning
Essential project-based learning goes hand in hand with the Essential Fluencies. At its best, PBL is students working together on projects that they care about, taking ownership of their education, and becoming lifelong learners. It’s like D. Blocher once... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Project Based Learning
Personalized learning is one of the best ways to connect to such a diverse range of learners as the ones we teach today. It’s one of the 10 shifts of practice of future-focused learning, and is a crucial consideration for achieving the highest levels of student... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Project Based Learning
Student-centered learning is one of the key factors of a memorable educational journey. Teachers are always looking for ways to tap into a student’s impulse and learn what interests them on their own. How do you own your own learning? What motivates you to take it... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Project Based Learning
Having a database of useful online teaching tools is a great practice for every teacher, as is a handy stable of great resources like you’ll find in our resources section. After all, you can’t do everything on your own and there are many developers out... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Project Based Learning
In the modern classroom, things get messy—in the best ways possible. Today when teachers use lesson planning strategies, they know the instructional model has shifted. They’re no longer the focal point of the classroom. Instead, students are working in groups to... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Project Based Learning
How do we as teachers get our students to define their own driving questions? One way is by pairing design thinking with project-based learning. If you want students to develop leadership, confidence, and solid core content knowledge, then this is a strategy that... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Project Based Learning
Makerspaces are becoming a big deal for schools all over the world. In these unique areas, student ingenuity takes the lead. From primary to senior grades makerspaces drive innovation, creativity, and critical thinking. Since their popularity is increasing, you can... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Project Based Learning
To create provocations in learning is to open doorways for developing creativity, critical thinking, and meaningful questioning habits. When we create provocations for learners, we “provoke” and inspire the beginning of exploration. Here’s a... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Project Based Learning
Why is fun and play crucial to achieving effective learning? It’s true that learning is important, but it doesn’t have to be dead serious. Everyone who desires to learn should be open to the idea of playing. It knows no age, subject, or grade restrictions.... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Project Based Learning
One cannot begin to imagine future learning scenarios if we can’t see where we’ve come from. I remember sitting at my desk with my textbook and notebook open and the teacher at the front of the class lecturing. In the afternoon I would go home to reread the texts and...