If you spend any time wandering through Durango’s middle schools – and I do, often – you’ll notice something right away: Kids are doing things. Hands-on, sleeves-rolled-up, eyes-bright kind of doing.

PBLWorks, the provider of professional development for project-based learning (PBL), has introduced PBLWorks TEACH, a web-based application that provides ready-to-use, standards-aligned PBL projects ...

Los Alamos Middle School students taking an Advanced Engineering class work on a building an accessibility ramp as part of a service project with Mesa-to-Mesa. Photo Courtesy LAPS Students lift ...

Milwaukee's Pathways High, a project-based charter school, is expanding to include middle school grades next fall.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kerry McDonald writes about innovative K-12 learning models. Last year, my 11-year-old son Sam participated in a summer day camp ...

Education experts are encouraging schools to consider problem-based learning (PBL) in a move to improve engagement and creativity among high school students. New research demonstrates how hands-on, ...

Pre-med students in a Biology course measure urban air quality in collaboration with citizen-scientists from the local community; students in a 300-level Business seminar design improvements to a ...

If Greensburg Salem’s STEAM Carnival sparks a desire to learn in even just one student, teacher Michelle Wiltrout will know she did her job. The carnival, a decade-long tradition at the district’s ...

Connecting CU Boulder engineering students with rural K-12 students in Colorado PBL in Rural Schools trains cohorts of CU students on instructional techniques and air and soil quality technology, then ...