1. Valley Ranch Elementary Coppell ISD November 7, 2013

2. Purpose: To create a supportive network of elementary principals to foster the growth of Project Based Learning for young learners.

3. Coppell ISD Classroom Educators  Tammee Henderson, VRE  Emily Huber, VRE  David Noel, MKB  Marie Sumrall, MKB

4.  What do you do when educators are resistant to PBLs?  What do you do when educators have not implemented PBLs with fidelity?  What do you do when educators seem unable to teach effectively using the PBL framework?

5.  Look and listen for…  Learners – able to articulate guiding question, understand the rubric or expectations, able to explain the purpose of the task, system for staying on-task, critical friends language  Classroom Walls – guiding question, knows and need to knows, anchor charts, work products, TEKS embedded throughout, evidence of presentations  Hallways – evidence of previous PBLs, work products

6. Knows & Need to Knows Driving Question

7. Reference material for PBL Work product

8. Previous PBL Work Product

9.  Meeting date  Meeting place  Stay connected  to join the wiki, please visit: http://principalpblcadre.wikispa ces.com http://principalpblcadre.wikispa ces.com

10.  www.bie.org/PBL  PBL in the Elementary Grades – Buck Institute by Sara Hallermann and John Larmer  Project-Based Learning With Young Children by Deborah Diffily and Charlotte Sassman  Problems as Possibilities: Problem-Based Learning for K-16 Education by Linda Torp and Sara Sage  Mind Missions Learning Systems  www.eduptopia.org www.eduptopia.org