EdCircuit Staff 
Novato, CA (February 19, 2025) – The Buck Institute for Education (dba PBLWorks), a national provider of professional development for high-quality Project Based Learning (PBL), announces its lineup of 2025 workshops designed to support educators and administrators thinking of, or already on their journey toward, implementing PBL. This includes 60+ services – including several new offerings – aligned to PBLWorks’ Gold Standard PBL model, a comprehensive, research-informed model for Project Based Learning.
PBLWorks has served more than 30,000 educators a year over the past decade. Educators have hailed from all 50 states and internationally. As more schools and districts strive to engage students in deeper learning, the number looking to PBLWorks for support will continue to grow. The available workshops help build teacher capacity and ensure sustainable and impactful systems and structures for implementing PBL.
View the 2025 PBLWorks Services Catalog here: https://bit.ly/4ftqjs9.
“Since our beginning, our professional development has focused on bringing high-quality, impactful Project Based Learning to classrooms, schools, and districts,” said PBLWorks CEO Bob Lenz. “PBL can transform learning and our 2025 lineup of services provides exciting new opportunities and tried-and-true practices that will further support schools across the country and the world in engaging students in their learning, in their communities, and in their futures.”
PBLWorks’ workshops and offerings are categorized into groups, tailored to the professional development needs of the users:
- Individual educators who are seeking to build their capacity to implement high-quality projects aligned with the Gold Standard PBL Model.
- School leaders and teams that are working to implement PBL at a school-wide level.
- District leaders and teams that are seeking to use PBL as a primary instructional method for all students.
- International partners – schools and districts that are outside of North America
PBLWorks provides a mix of online and in-person workshops, including an Advanced Placement series and its PBL World professional development conference (www.pblworks.org/pbl-world), which takes place June 23-26 in Napa Valley, California and includes a robust array of PBL workshops.
Some of PBLWorks’ featured 2025 workshops include:
- Celebration of Learning. A new one-day, in-person workshop offered for both individual educators, and for school-wide professional development, that is ideal for the end of the semester or school year. Teachers and instructional coaches reflect on project implementation and consider implications for future projects.
- Leadership Jumpstart (available May 1, 2025). This workshop helps instructional coaches, school leaders, and district leaders learn how to prepare and support teachers in implementing PBL more effectively in their classrooms.
- Project Slice: The Storytime Channel. This workshop is available at the PBL World conference and after July 1st more widely. Project Slice workshops allow participants to experience what it’s like to be a learner in PBL by engaging them in an immersive one-day PBL experience. In this workshop, designed for early childhood educators, teams explore the driving question “How do we make stories come alive?” by creating engaging productions of familiar fairy tales for a collaborative “Storytime Channel.”
- PBL 201: Learner-Centered Assessment. This new three-day workshop is available at the PBL World conference and after July 1. It helps participants elevate their assessment practices within PBL using practical strategies and tips.
“Project Based Learning engages students in authentic projects that build the skills they need to succeed in college, career, and life, and we are looking forward to supporting a new wave of teachers, schools and districts in implementing high-quality PBL this year,” Lenz said.
About PBLWorks
The Buck Institute for Education/PBLWorks believes that all students, especially Black and Brown students, should have access to high-quality Project Based Learning to deepen their learning and achieve success in college, career, and life. Its focus is on building the capacity of teachers to design and facilitate high-quality Project Based Learning, and on supporting school and system leaders in creating the conditions for these teachers to succeed with all students.
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