Opinion

Recent studies found that PBL 'results in a significant boost in academic achievement for students from many different backgrounds.'

Relational capacity is essential to helping students recover from the pandemic's learning losses.

Just as newspapers lost subscribers, some public schools have been losing students, and like papers, some responded to losses in revenue and enrollment by laying off teachers, narrowing the curriculum, and eliminating programs.

COVID demonstrated that if educators pool our limited resources and focus on teaching and learning in a variety of models, we can achieve anything we set our minds to.

Thoughtful, data-driven analysis is especially important when time is short.

Making the transition to PBL isn't easy. But research shows it works and is a great way to provide students with what they need in these challenging times.