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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 24) and the three-day conference (July 25-27) for an additional $498.
One Hour Option: Attend the three-day conference (July 25-27) for an additional $249. Registration link available July 2018.
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 24) and the three-day conference (July 25-27) for an additional $498.
One Hour Option: Attend the three-day conference (July 25-27) for an additional $249. Registration link available July 2018.
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July 24, 2018 (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 a three-day PBL workshop.
Exception: Leadership Team participants should not attend; Project Slice is built into their three-day workshop, July 25-27.
Prerequisite: None
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.
Project Slice offering: 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.
View the Project Slice schedule here [PDF]
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 a three-day PBL workshop.
Exception: Leadership Team participants should not attend; Project Slice is built into their three-day workshop, July 25-27.
Prerequisite: None
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.
Project Slice offering: 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.
View the Project Slice schedule here [PDF]
July 25-27, 2018 (three-day workshop)
Prerequisite: None
Based on the Buck Institute for Education's 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 BIE's 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:
Prerequisite: None
Based on the Buck Institute for Education's 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 BIE's 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
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CHOOSE ONE: Building a Learning-Centered Classroom | Improving the Quality of Student Work
July 25-27, 2018 (three-day workshop)
Prerequisite: PBL 101. Participants cannot be moved to another workshop upon arrival at the conference.
PBL 201 Workshops are three-day (18-hour) onsite workshops that provide experienced PBL practitioners with in-depth instruction on BIE’s Gold Standard Project Based Teaching Practices as well as supported project development time. Facilitated by one of BIE's 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 (new edition!)
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 (new edition!)
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.
PBL 201 Workshops are three-day (18-hour) onsite workshops that provide experienced PBL practitioners with in-depth instruction on BIE’s Gold Standard Project Based Teaching Practices as well as supported project development time. Facilitated by one of BIE's 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 (new edition!)
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 (new edition!)
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.
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July 25-27, 2018 (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.
The PBL Coaching Workshop is BIE’s 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 BIE's 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.
The PBL Coaching Workshop is BIE’s 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 BIE's 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
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July 25-27, 2018 (three-day workshop)
For Leadership teams in a school or district - Participants are strongly encouraged to register in teams of three.
Prerequisite: None
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. Leaders attending this workshop should not attend the pre-conference Project Slice.
Day 1 Outcomes:
Day 2 Outcomes:
Day 3 Outcomes:
Final Product
For Leadership teams in a school or district - Participants are strongly encouraged to register in teams of three.
Prerequisite: None
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. Leaders attending this workshop should not attend the pre-conference Project Slice.
Day 1 Outcomes:
- Experience PBL as a learner
- Engage with colleagues in a collaborative experience
- Reflect on current and future practice
Day 2 Outcomes:
- Identify key actions that will guide PBL implementation and move the school as well as
- Understand and explain how Gold Standard PBL aligns to your district vision/strategic plan
Day 3 Outcomes:
- Collaborate as a network of leaders to build coherence and capacity to move PBL implementation forward
Final Product
- The leader will create a product to inspire positive momentum in the conditions necessary for Project Based Learning
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100% refund if canceled by May 31, 2018
50% refund if canceled between June 1 and July 10, 2018
No refund if canceled after July 10, 2018
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.
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% refund if canceled between June 1 and July 10, 2018
No refund if canceled after July 10, 2018
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.
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