Whoa, Partner
My cousin Gary grew up on a dairy farm. There were always a couple of horses around, and he learned to ride at an early age. Later on, figuring that riding a bike couldn’t be too tricky, he picked up too much speed going down a hill, pulled back on the handlebars, and yelled, “Whoa.”
The barbed-wire fence he hit knocked out his two front teeth.
Sometimes it pays to pause and think a little more deeply about what you’re doing, and how fast you’re moving.
After surveying the current landscape of Project-Based Learning in our schools, Real Good Projects is going to change things up a bit. Rather than bringing you a new article every day, we’re going to slow down and take deeper dives into what teachers and administrators are actually doing with PBL,how they’re using it, why it’s working, where it’s hard, and in some cases, why it hasn’t taken hold yet.
This shift means we’ll spend more time listening, searching, and researching, and less time rushing to publish. Our hope is to bring you thoughtful, real stories from practice, work that’s alive in classrooms and schools right now, and that might resonate with your own experience. For the near future, we expect to publish once or twice a week.
From the beginning, our aim has been to help sponsor a growing community of PBL practitioners. That goal hasn’t changed. In fact, it matters more than ever. We’d like to find better ways for you to share with one another here, and we genuinely want to hear what you’re trying, learning, and questioning, through comments, notes, email, phone, or any way that works for you.
We’re here to support anyone who wants to engage more deeply with Project-Based Learning, at any level. If there’s something you need, or a story you think is worth telling, let us know. We’ll get back to you.
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