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Graduate Credit
PBL Ohio Institute attendees are eligible for either one or two hours of graduate credit from Ashland University.
Two Hour Option: Attend both Project Slice (July 23) and the three-day conference (July 24-26) for an additional $498.
One Hour Option: Attend the three-day conference (July 24-26) for an additional $249. Registration link available July 2019.
PBL Ohio Institute attendees are eligible for either one or two hours of graduate credit from Ashland University.
Two Hour Option: Attend both Project Slice (July 23) and the three-day conference (July 24-26) for an additional $498.
One Hour Option: Attend the three-day conference (July 24-26) for an additional $249. Registration link available July 2019.
July 23, 2019 (one day)
Audience: For anyone interested in learning more about how PBL is experienced as a student in the classroom.
You can attend Project Slice as a stand-alone workshop, or pair it with any three-day PBL workshop.
Prerequisite: None
Please Note: It is highly recommended for participants to have their own computer or tablet with internet capability to access digital materials and work in digital documents throughout this 3-day workshop.
A Project Slice demonstrates what it’s like to be a learner in Project Based Learning, by engaging participants in an immersive PBL experience—a “slice” of a project. Schools and districts can use a Project Slice to build understanding of PBL in a staff or school community.
Project Slice participants engage as learners in a transformative one-day project that models the key features of the PBL process. The day mirrors the flow of a larger project, beginning with an engaging launch/entry event and authentic driving question. Teams work together to build knowledge, understanding and success skills, and develop and critique products and answers to the driving question. The day culminates with team presentations of their products, followed by structured reflection on what they have learned about PBL. At key moments throughout the day, participants are encouraged to “put on their teacher hats” and reflect on the pedagogical moves they are experiencing as PBL learners, as well as implications for their own contexts.
OPTION ONE
Making Space for Change
Participants in this Project Slice explore the driving question: “How can we redesign a public space to promote a social benefit?” Each team focuses on creating a plan for a public space (park, library, etc.) that facilitates a different goal, such as increasing opportunities for civil and democratic discourse, or enhancing public health and physical fitness.
Please Note: This option was offered at last year's PBL Ohio Institute.
OPTION TWO
Sustainable Future New for 2019!
The driving question for this Project Slice is: “How do we manage shared resources for a sustainable future?” Teams explore and apply economic and environmental science theories related to the “commons. “ They create case study presentations focused on local and global situations in which the needs of individuals come into conflict with the needs of the collective, and present possible solutions to these challenges.
Audience: For anyone interested in learning more about how PBL is experienced as a student in the classroom.
You can attend Project Slice as a stand-alone workshop, or pair it with any three-day PBL workshop.
Prerequisite: None
Please Note: It is highly recommended for participants to have their own computer or tablet with internet capability to access digital materials and work in digital documents throughout this 3-day workshop.
A Project Slice demonstrates what it’s like to be a learner in Project Based Learning, by engaging participants in an immersive PBL experience—a “slice” of a project. Schools and districts can use a Project Slice to build understanding of PBL in a staff or school community.
Project Slice participants engage as learners in a transformative one-day project that models the key features of the PBL process. The day mirrors the flow of a larger project, beginning with an engaging launch/entry event and authentic driving question. Teams work together to build knowledge, understanding and success skills, and develop and critique products and answers to the driving question. The day culminates with team presentations of their products, followed by structured reflection on what they have learned about PBL. At key moments throughout the day, participants are encouraged to “put on their teacher hats” and reflect on the pedagogical moves they are experiencing as PBL learners, as well as implications for their own contexts.
OPTION ONE
Making Space for Change
Participants in this Project Slice explore the driving question: “How can we redesign a public space to promote a social benefit?” Each team focuses on creating a plan for a public space (park, library, etc.) that facilitates a different goal, such as increasing opportunities for civil and democratic discourse, or enhancing public health and physical fitness.
Please Note: This option was offered at last year's PBL Ohio Institute.
OPTION TWO
Sustainable Future New for 2019!
The driving question for this Project Slice is: “How do we manage shared resources for a sustainable future?” Teams explore and apply economic and environmental science theories related to the “commons. “ They create case study presentations focused on local and global situations in which the needs of individuals come into conflict with the needs of the collective, and present possible solutions to these challenges.
July 24-26, 2019 (three-day workshop)
Prerequisite: None
Please Note: It is highly recommended for participants to have their own computer or tablet with internet capability to access digital materials and work in digital documents throughout this 3-day workshop.
Based on the PBLWorks' model for Gold Standard PBL, the three-day PBL 101 Workshop engages participants in learning how to design, assess, and manage a rigorous, relevant, standards- focused project. The workshop models the project process. Facilitated by one of PBLWorks' expert National Faculty, the workshop is a balanced blend of direct instruction, video analysis, hands-on work, resource sharing, and peer collaboration. Participants have substantial time to plan their own project, and receive formative feedback from peers and the facilitator.
Day One – Designing Projects
Day Two – Assessing Projects
Day Three –Managing Projects
Final Product
As result of this workshop, participants will:
Career Pathways 101 Training (Grades 9-12) New for 2019!
An introductory PBL workshop for interdisciplinary, career-pathway aligned Project Based Learning (e.g., Linked Learning or career academy schools). Work within site-based, grade-level interdisciplinary teams to collaboratively create interdisciplinary projects that target core content as well as career pathway outcomes.
Prerequisite: None
Please Note: It is highly recommended for participants to have their own computer or tablet with internet capability to access digital materials and work in digital documents throughout this 3-day workshop.
Based on the PBLWorks' model for Gold Standard PBL, the three-day PBL 101 Workshop engages participants in learning how to design, assess, and manage a rigorous, relevant, standards- focused project. The workshop models the project process. Facilitated by one of PBLWorks' expert National Faculty, the workshop is a balanced blend of direct instruction, video analysis, hands-on work, resource sharing, and peer collaboration. Participants have substantial time to plan their own project, and receive formative feedback from peers and the facilitator.
Day One – Designing Projects
- Understand the distinction between “doing projects” and Project Based Learning
- Become familiar with online project design, assessment and management resources
- Learn to use peer‐driven feedback protocols
Day Two – Assessing Projects
- Create a standards‐based project design, including key success skills, a driving question, and major student products
- Incorporate best practices in formative and summative assessment into project designs
- Learn to use peer‐driven feedback protocols
Day Three –Managing Projects
- Incorporate best practices in managing projects into project plans
- Learn to use peer‐driven feedback protocols
Final Product
As result of this workshop, participants will:
- As a team or individual teacher, produce a draft project design that is ready to be implemented in their classroom
Career Pathways 101 Training (Grades 9-12) New for 2019!
An introductory PBL workshop for interdisciplinary, career-pathway aligned Project Based Learning (e.g., Linked Learning or career academy schools). Work within site-based, grade-level interdisciplinary teams to collaboratively create interdisciplinary projects that target core content as well as career pathway outcomes.
July 24-26, 2019 (three-day workshop)
Prerequisite: PBL 101. Participants cannot be moved to another workshop upon arrival at the conference.
Please Note: It is highly recommended for participants to have their own computer or tablet with internet capability to access digital materials and work in digital documents throughout this 3-day workshop.
PBL 201 Workshops are three-day (18-hour) onsite workshops that provide experienced PBL practitioners with in-depth instruction on PBLWorks' Gold Standard Project Based Teaching Practices as well as supported project development time. Facilitated by one of PBLWorks' expert National Faculty, each workshop offers a balanced blend of direct instruction, video analysis, hands-on work, resource sharing, and peer collaboration and feedback. Participants will leave each workshop with the beginnings of a new project as well as a deeper understanding of effective PBL facilitation practices.
OPTION ONE
Building a Learner-Centered Classroom
Focus Teaching Practices: Align to Standards, Build the Culture, Manage Activities, Assess Student Learning
In this interactive learning experience, educators will learn strategies for increasing the engagement and empowerment of all students in the PBL classroom. Experienced PBL educators who attend this workshop will learn to skillfully plan for student choice throughout a project and to use management structures that place student learning at the center. They will reflect on the use of peer feedback as a tool for student empowerment and distributed expertise in the classroom. Workshop attendees will apply the practices they learn to the development of a high-quality standards-aligned project and a plan for learner-centered project implementation in their classrooms.
OPTION TWO
Improving the Quality of Student Work
Focus Teaching Practices: Align to Standards, Scaffold Student Learning, Engage & Coach, Assess Student Learning
How do we ensure that the products we ask students to create are rigorous and align to significant content and skills? What project-embedded strategies can help deepen student thinking and elicit evidence of this thinking? How can we coach students toward ever-increasing levels of intellectual rigor and quality work? In this engaging and interactive workshop, participants will investigate and apply teaching practices and strategies that can help to strengthen the quality of student work in a PBL classroom. They will develop and reflect on a high-quality project, and will plan for project implementation in order to improve student products and enhance learning.
Prerequisite: PBL 101. Participants cannot be moved to another workshop upon arrival at the conference.
Please Note: It is highly recommended for participants to have their own computer or tablet with internet capability to access digital materials and work in digital documents throughout this 3-day workshop.
PBL 201 Workshops are three-day (18-hour) onsite workshops that provide experienced PBL practitioners with in-depth instruction on PBLWorks' Gold Standard Project Based Teaching Practices as well as supported project development time. Facilitated by one of PBLWorks' expert National Faculty, each workshop offers a balanced blend of direct instruction, video analysis, hands-on work, resource sharing, and peer collaboration and feedback. Participants will leave each workshop with the beginnings of a new project as well as a deeper understanding of effective PBL facilitation practices.
OPTION ONE
Building a Learner-Centered Classroom
Focus Teaching Practices: Align to Standards, Build the Culture, Manage Activities, Assess Student Learning
In this interactive learning experience, educators will learn strategies for increasing the engagement and empowerment of all students in the PBL classroom. Experienced PBL educators who attend this workshop will learn to skillfully plan for student choice throughout a project and to use management structures that place student learning at the center. They will reflect on the use of peer feedback as a tool for student empowerment and distributed expertise in the classroom. Workshop attendees will apply the practices they learn to the development of a high-quality standards-aligned project and a plan for learner-centered project implementation in their classrooms.
OPTION TWO
Improving the Quality of Student Work
Focus Teaching Practices: Align to Standards, Scaffold Student Learning, Engage & Coach, Assess Student Learning
How do we ensure that the products we ask students to create are rigorous and align to significant content and skills? What project-embedded strategies can help deepen student thinking and elicit evidence of this thinking? How can we coach students toward ever-increasing levels of intellectual rigor and quality work? In this engaging and interactive workshop, participants will investigate and apply teaching practices and strategies that can help to strengthen the quality of student work in a PBL classroom. They will develop and reflect on a high-quality project, and will plan for project implementation in order to improve student products and enhance learning.
July 24-26, 2019 (three-day workshop)
For Educators In A School Or District Coaching Role
Prerequisite: PBL 101. Participants cannot be moved to another workshop upon arrival at the conference.
Please Note: It is highly recommended for participants to have their own computer or tablet with internet capability to access digital materials and work in digital documents throughout this 3-day workshop.
The PBL Coaching Workshop is PBLWorks' foundational three-day (consecutive) workshop based on our PBL Coaching Cycle and aligned to Gold Standard Project Based Learning. It provides instructional coaches/leaders with the knowledge and skills to support teachers in project implementation. Facilitated by one of PBLWorks' expert National Faculty, the workshop is a balanced blend of direct instruction, videos from the field, hands-on work, resource sharing, and peer collaboration and feedback. Participants are actively engaged in developing a PBL Coaching Toolkit, with the expectation that this work will be shared with all participants in the workshop.
Day 1 Objectives:
Day 2 Objectives:
Day 3 Objectives:
Final Product
For Educators In A School Or District Coaching Role
Prerequisite: PBL 101. Participants cannot be moved to another workshop upon arrival at the conference.
Please Note: It is highly recommended for participants to have their own computer or tablet with internet capability to access digital materials and work in digital documents throughout this 3-day workshop.
The PBL Coaching Workshop is PBLWorks' foundational three-day (consecutive) workshop based on our PBL Coaching Cycle and aligned to Gold Standard Project Based Learning. It provides instructional coaches/leaders with the knowledge and skills to support teachers in project implementation. Facilitated by one of PBLWorks' expert National Faculty, the workshop is a balanced blend of direct instruction, videos from the field, hands-on work, resource sharing, and peer collaboration and feedback. Participants are actively engaged in developing a PBL Coaching Toolkit, with the expectation that this work will be shared with all participants in the workshop.
Day 1 Objectives:
- Engage a project critique to analyze the design strengths and areas for growth of a project
- Become familiar with best practices related to engaging in a coaching conversation
- Identify the teacher and student actions in Gold Standard project implementation
- Learn to use peer-driven feedback protocols
Day 2 Objectives:
- Analyze data from a project in order to identify an area of focus for student learning and teacher practice
- Collaboratively develop a list of resources and strategies for the coaching toolkits
- Respond to teacher videos by planning a Coaching Conversation
- Create coaching questions aligned to the PBL Coaching Cycle and project based teaching practices
- Learn to use peer-driven feedback protocols
Day 3 Objectives:
- Engage in a mini-workshop to learn how an existing model of coaching can be used to support Project Based Learning
- Identify possible sources of evidence for analyzing the impact of coaching, in addition to activities that can be used for the purpose
- Explore how the toolkit can be used to coach in specific situations
- Learn to use peer-driven feedback protocols
Final Product
- In teams, produce a PBL Coaching Toolkit aligned to one of the project based teaching practices to support their work with teachers in the field
July 24-26, 2019 (three-day workshop)
For Leadership teams in a school or district - Participants are strongly encouraged to register in teams of three.
Prerequisite: None
Please Note: It is highly recommended for participants to have their own computer or tablet with internet capability to access digital materials and work in digital documents throughout this 3-day workshop.
PBL Leadership Team is a three-day intensive dive into how school and district leaders support the conditions for Project Based Learning to thrive in their systems. Reflecting on their current reality, participants will design their strategy to implement PBL and foster a project based mindset for teaching, learning and leading that moves them forward along the PBL Leadership Progression of Practice.
Who Should Attend
This workshop will provide access for district and school leaders to forward the work of Project Based Learning in their setting whether new or experienced PBL leaders.
For Leadership teams in a school or district - Participants are strongly encouraged to register in teams of three.
Prerequisite: None
Please Note: It is highly recommended for participants to have their own computer or tablet with internet capability to access digital materials and work in digital documents throughout this 3-day workshop.
PBL Leadership Team is a three-day intensive dive into how school and district leaders support the conditions for Project Based Learning to thrive in their systems. Reflecting on their current reality, participants will design their strategy to implement PBL and foster a project based mindset for teaching, learning and leading that moves them forward along the PBL Leadership Progression of Practice.
Who Should Attend
This workshop will provide access for district and school leaders to forward the work of Project Based Learning in their setting whether new or experienced PBL leaders.
No registration fee will be charged if canceled by May 31, 2019
50% registration fee will be charged if canceled between June 1 and July 10, 2019
100% registration fee will be charged if canceled after July 10, 2019
Refunds will be issued in the same form as original payment.
Credit card payments will be refunded to the card used for registration.
PBL Ohio Institute does not award payment credit towards future services or events.
Click here to download our W-9 tax form for your accounts payable department.
If paying by Purchase Order, please email to rob.engel@escco.org and make payable to:
ESC of Central Ohio
2080 Citygate Drive
Columbus, Ohio 43219
ATTN: Rob Engel
If paying by Check, please mail and make payable to:
ESC of Central Ohio
2080 Citygate Drive
Columbus, Ohio 43219
ATTN: Rob Engel
If paying by check or purchase order, the ESC of Central Ohio must receive check or purchase order to confirm registration.
Registrants outside the U.S.:
Visa, MasterCard and Discover only.
Purchase orders outside US not accepted.
Please contact Rob Engel with any payment or registration questions at Rob.Engel@escco.org or (614) 542-4187
50% registration fee will be charged if canceled between June 1 and July 10, 2019
100% registration fee will be charged if canceled after July 10, 2019
Refunds will be issued in the same form as original payment.
Credit card payments will be refunded to the card used for registration.
PBL Ohio Institute does not award payment credit towards future services or events.
Click here to download our W-9 tax form for your accounts payable department.
If paying by Purchase Order, please email to rob.engel@escco.org and make payable to:
ESC of Central Ohio
2080 Citygate Drive
Columbus, Ohio 43219
ATTN: Rob Engel
If paying by Check, please mail and make payable to:
ESC of Central Ohio
2080 Citygate Drive
Columbus, Ohio 43219
ATTN: Rob Engel
If paying by check or purchase order, the ESC of Central Ohio must receive check or purchase order to confirm registration.
Registrants outside the U.S.:
Visa, MasterCard and Discover only.
Purchase orders outside US not accepted.
Please contact Rob Engel with any payment or registration questions at Rob.Engel@escco.org or (614) 542-4187