Bob Lenz is the CEO of PBLWorks, an institute that uses project based learning to increase educational equity and provide learning that students connect with. Bob has spent his life creating project based classrooms for himself and teaching others how to do it. 

We discuss how project based learning prepares kids, especially black and brown and underprivileged learners, for college success through teaching collaboration, public speaking, and project management, and the education myth: just because someone teaches it, doesn’t mean you learn it; just because it was covered, doesn’t mean it was learned. 

In this episode, we cover:

• How a poetry project in the 5th grade sparked Bob’s interest in project-based learning
• Dismantling the myth that project-based learning can only work in certain schools
• Will kids learn ‘academics’ in a PBL model?
• What is hindering educators from having more agency in their classrooms and what we can do about it
• How we can assess students progress without grades
• How project-based learning works well in remote settings

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