Author: Aaron Eisberg

Teaching in a Project Based world is not easy. Our practice is full of challenges in our daily life - in our classrooms, in the structures of our schools, and sometimes life just gets in the way. Even after engaging in a traditional PBL training, we as teachers can be overwhelmed with balancing the idea … Continue reading Quick Shifts to impact your Practice

For many schools this time of year is when progress reports are due and parents are made aware of how their learner is doing in school. It is also a point in time when many students are aware of how many missing assignments show up on their reports. How we as educators respond to these … Continue reading Students Missing Work

The holy grail of projects design is to have interdisciplinary projects where learners can see and uncover that content isn’t utilized in a silo. “In the real world” (as we often say) we don’t have set “math time” or “Social Studies” time, we use content knowledge interwoven throughout our day to solve the problem or  … Continue reading Interdisciplinary Projects and Schedules

  To reimagine and redesign education so that every student has access to authentic real world rigorous connections to content. Simply put, to change and make change in education. This is my “why” in my work in education. As I grew up in small town rural USA watching high quality instruction in a diverse school, … Continue reading 47 Hours in Peru

How long does it take to have kids make a PowerPoint? A Prezi? A Slideshow?...Ten minutes. These activities and tasks lead to a world of divide and conquer or one person doing all the work in the group. This often a point of challenge when entering into the world of Project Based Learning. We don’t … Continue reading Why Collaboration is More than Groupwork