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The PBL Playbook is meant to help you navigate your PBL questions and problems, build your PBL confidence, and add strategies for success to your own playbook! It is podcast designed for teachers by teachers. Your hosts Josh and Andrea are PBL facilitators currently in the classroom, and who have gone through similar PBL trials and failures. They interview teachers, administrators, coaches and afterschool workers all doing PBL work across the United States. Tune in as they cover common PBL questions, share PBL best practices, discuss PBL projects!
PBL Project Blitz episodes
Lacee Wald is a fifth-grade facilitator from Neosho, Missouri. She's been through the rigorous PBL certification process and is now equipped to train and teach other teachers about Project Based Learning. In this PBL Blitz, Lacee will be sharing her favorite PBL unit called Friday’s Endgame.
In this special episode of the PBL Blitz series, Andrea interviews a familiar voice: Josh is the special guest on this Blitz episode to discuss PBL vs. PrBL (Problem Based Learning) and the authentic application of learning on a smaller scale.
In this episode of the PBL Project Blitz, Megan Reedy from JCPS in Louisville, KY. Megan’s class at Dunn Elementary completed a Watershed PBL Unit in which her first graders became conservationists in order to raise awareness about the human impact on watershed areas.
In this episode of the PBL Project Blitz, we hear from Noah Klein (@MrKleinAIC), an Instructional Coach in JCPS in Louisville, KY. For this episode, Noah shares a project from his time in his 12th grade English classroom in which his students addressed the question, “Where does my food come from?”
In the 20th episode of the PBL Project Blitz, your hosts chat with Jason Schackow (@jschackow) about his Night of Remembrance project. Although Jason now carries the title of Principal at Lakeland Jr./Sr. High School in LaGrange, IN, this project was completed when he was classroom teaching in an integrated World History / English course with high school sophomores.
In this episode of the PBL Project Blitz series, our hosts are joined by Kayla Adams, a first grade teacher in JCPS in Louisville, KY. Kayla talks to our hosts about a project she completed with her first graders in which her students learned how to become authentic authors
In this episode of the PBL Project Blitz series, our hosts are joined by Joe Steele, an English teacher at CSA New Tech High School in Columbus, IN. Joe discusses a project he did in his integrated English 10 and Probability & Statistics course that had students create Little Free Libraries in their community.
In the this episode of the PBL Project Blitz series, our hosts are joined by John Brewer from the Academy @ Shawnee in Louisville, KY to discuss his project called “A Dream (Still) Deferred”. This project goes deep to tackle some moral realities and problems that exist in our world today.
In this episode of the PBL Project Blitz series, our hosts are joined once again by Brittany Tinkler, a third grade teacher at Southport Elementary School in Indianapolis, IN. On today’s Blitz episode, Brittany shares with us her “Famous American” wax museum project, which has gone from a traditional project, to an authentic PBL project, to an authentic PBL project suitable for COVID-19 restrictions.
In the final 2020 episode of the PBL Project Blitz series, our hosts are joined by Global Science Perspectives teachers Veronica Buckler and Fariha Hossain of CSA New Tech High School in Columbus, IN to discuss their annual Holiday Ride project. This project started with the goal of community awareness of climate change, and this year is taking a virtual twist.
In this episode of the PBL Project Blitz series, Southport Elementary teacher Brittany Tinkler returns to share the Agency project that she completed with her 3rd Grade class. Tinkler’s 3rd graders aimed to teach the younger students at their school about agency: What is agency? Why is it important? How do we show agency?
In this episode of the PBL Project Blitz series, Josh and Andrea chat with Irvington Community Schools teacher Emma Cudahy about a podcast project she completed with her high school Government classes. This episode was a little different in that this project is not one that Emma feels is an example of the Gold Standard of PBL; this project highlight is an example of learning from failure when a project does not go as planned.
In this episode of the PBL Project Blitz, Josh and Andrea chat with Rhonda Adamson about a Middle School Math and Science project she did at Decatur Middle School in MSD Decatur Township Schools in Indianapolis, IN. Lining up with the annual Indy 500 race in Indianapolis, Rhonda’s classes partnered with the Indianapolis Children’s Museum to create a Hot Wheels: Race to Win exhibit to teach younger students about force and other ideas relevant to race cars.
In this episode of the PBL Project Blitz, Josh and Andrea chat with Britni Pascoe, a 3rd Grade teacher at Southport Elementary School in Southport, IN. Britni shares a project that the Southport Elementary 3rd Graders completed called “Spin for M4M.” Inspired by a Myeloma diagnosis in a family member of one of their teachers, third graders aimed to revamp a biking event called Miles 4 Myeloma in order to raise both awareness of the disease and money for cancer research.
In this episode of the PBL Project Blitz, Josh and Andrea talk about a COVID-19 related project that was completed by the 6th graders at Hamilton Central School in New York. Their guest, 6th grade teacher Monica Chamberlain, discusses the project that she created to provide an authentic learning opportunity for her students in the midst of the school closures due to COVID-19.
In this episode of the PBL Project Blitz, Josh and Andrea have a virtual chat with Justin Newby, a Special Education teacher at T.T. Knight Middle School. Jefferson County Public Schools in Kentucky. Justin talks about an environmentally driven project, Plastic Trash, he completed with his students in which they analyze the impact of environmental waste in their own community.
In this episode of the PBL Project Blitz, our hosts visit with Babcock Neighborhood School in Babcock Ranch, FL . Third grade facilitators Amanda Barkley and Brandi Kirkpatrick share some of their valuable Spring Break time to talk to the PBL Playbook about their project called “Germ Busters.” This authentic project came directly from the student concerns at the beginning of the year when their classmates were having to miss school because of sickness.
In this special leap-day bonus episode of the PBL Project Blitz series, our hosts sit down with Nate Langel, a High School Chemistry teacher at the Grand Rapids Public Museum School (MI). He shares an incredibly powerful project in which he partners with Heartside Ministry, a local non-profit to help those facing homelessness and other challenges.
In this episode of the PBL Project Blitz, our hosts sit down with 3rd grade facilitator Brittany Tinkler from Southport Elementary School in Southport, IN. Tinkler shares a project she completed with her students called “Keep Indy Warm,” an initiative for students to help support the homeless community in Indianapolis by making blankets, writing letters, etc. to give out in preparation for the cold Midwestern winter.
In this episode of the PBL Project Blitz, our hosts talk to two middle school Project Based Learning teachers about a project that they have facilitated around literacy. Trisha Burns and Angela Spurgeon facilitate PBL in their 8th grade Math and English classrooms, respectively. They discuss with our hosts a project that they have done called “Lit for Learning,” in which students raise money for children’s books to promote literacy.
In this episode of the PBL Project Blitz, our hosts chat with Rachelle Antcliff , a senior English facilitator from CSA New Tech in Columbus, IN. Rachelle dives into the annual senior capstone project, which allows senior students to truly craft their own PBL project, based on their own interests as well as community needs.
In this episode of the PBL Project Blitz, our hosts chat with Rachel Crawford and Tiffany Bishop, first grade teachers from Babcock Ranch Neighborhood School in Babcock Ranch, FL. They share an incredibly authentic and powerful project they did with their first grade students around the protection of bald eagles and their habitats.
In this episode of the PBL Project Blitz, our hosts sit down with Kendra McPheeters, an English teacher and literacy coach in northwest Indiana. McPheeters shares about one of her favorite projects in which students studied short stories and partnered with the elementary school to encourage STEM-based literacy.
In this inaugural episode of the PBL Project Blitz, our hosts sit down with Andrew Larson, a science teacher at CSA New Tech (@CSANewTechHS) in Columbus, IN. Larson shares about one of his favorite projects: the Dystopian Masterpiece theater, in which students studied dystopian literature and had the opportunity to write and perform their own plays at a local theater.
Lacee Wald is a fifth-grade facilitator from Neosho, Missouri. She's been through the rigorous PBL certification process and is now equipped to train and teach other teachers about Project Based Learning. In this PBL Blitz, Lacee will be sharing her favorite PBL unit called Friday’s Endgame.