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Oct 30, 2026
Mandy FroehlichGUEST
So my last name is kind of complicated to spell, but if you want to reach out to me, it would be mandyfrelick at tech.com. Tech is T-E-Q, not T-E-C-H.
Mandy FroehlichGUEST
And so you can reach out to me on there or you can find us at tech.com. Otis and we have a PBL curriculum called iBlocks.
Mandy FroehlichGUEST
All of that can be found on our website, all the links to that are on our website, so you can find more
Lee GreenHOST
Awesome.
Bo AdamsGUEST
And a lot of my time as an educational leader has been led by exploring that question in all kinds of ways from countless projects that my sons and I did together starting when they were four with a project that lasted a long time in their lives called FSBL.
Bo AdamsGUEST
So if people are familiar with PBL, FSBL is father-son based learning.
Bo AdamsGUEST
Oh,
Shelly MahonHOST
cool.
Dorian ToddGUEST
You can only get so far on paper and you can get pretty far on paper, but you can only get so far.
Dorian ToddGUEST
And so integrating things that allow students to learn through project-based learning into classrooms is one of my goals as a person.
Dorian ToddGUEST
And so to have that opportunity through CAD Class to start designing robots that not only are designed in a way that's accessible and 3D printable, but also designed in a way that allows teachers to actually use them in a classroom.
Aaron LongHOST
All right, so I was actually just on the website, but Dorian, can you tell us a little bit about what is CAD class? What does it fill for teachers? What does it provide?
Betsy PotashHOST
I just knew that it never did.
Betsy PotashHOST
Recently, as my students embarked on a massive group PBL task, I wanted to set the stage by talking about an elephant in any room involving collaboration.
Betsy PotashHOST
How do we even do group work? I tapped some helpful resources in the Lighthouse, and I was really happy with how it all went down.
Betsy PotashHOST
So today, let me walk you through it.
Betsy PotashHOST
I also clipped the little group work guide I made inside one of the frames on our classroom wall so that we can check back on that, plus every student has a copy.
Betsy PotashHOST
And that was it.
Betsy PotashHOST
From there, we moved on into our first small group meetings for our new PBL project.
Betsy PotashHOST
And I was really pleased by what I saw around the room.
Kristen MooreHOST
OK, I want to be really clear that this project is because I think it illustrates something important.
Kristen MooreHOST
This is not a huge open ended PBL experience.
Kristen MooreHOST
Absolutely not.
Kristen MooreHOST
Students aren't solving a giant community problem.
Kristen MooreHOST
It's iterative and that's part of the learning process.
Kristen MooreHOST
The project does not eliminate the need for fluency, right? It gives our students a reason to develop that fluency.
Kristen MooreHOST
And I think that's where we can get ourselves in trouble if we make teaching philosophies into these different camps, right? I'm a PBL teacher,
Kristen MooreHOST
so I don't use worksheets.
Ryan SteuerHOST
That's what we're gonna talk about today using some of the examples that we've seen at Magnify Learning.
Ryan SteuerHOST
Welcome to the PBL simplified podcast for administrators.
Ryan SteuerHOST
I'm your host, Ryan Steuer, CEO of Magnify Learning.
Ryan SteuerHOST
And we've seen a lot of these types of implementations.
Ryan SteuerHOST
But let's listen with intentionality.
Ryan SteuerHOST
What are you listening for? You might be listening for, if you know that project-based learning is the direction you want to go, what are some things that are...
Ryan SteuerHOST
a lot like project-based learning? What are the portions of the evaluation system that encourage project-based learning? Which parts don't? When you've got a unit that teachers absolutely love, a current grade level, they've usually got this pet project that they love, there's usually a lot of PBL elements in there.
Ryan SteuerHOST
Now, is it likely a project and not project-based learning? Yeah, it is actually.
Hayden QuinnGUEST
It's a formal sort of session, formal lesson.
Hayden QuinnGUEST
PBL groups? Yeah.
Hayden QuinnGUEST
Yes, but it's kind of separate to that sort of PBL domain.
Hayden QuinnGUEST
And long story short, we go through the things that can't really be taught in lectures and labs.
Hayden QuinnGUEST
So it's the stuff like, well, we started with the code of conduct, the uppercode of conduct.
Nicole DysonGUEST
Yeah, I've always, I mean, the foundations of the work that we do at Future Anything sat around the intersection of three particular like approaches to pedagogy.
Nicole DysonGUEST
And, you know, one of them was project-based learning.
Nicole DysonGUEST
Like early in my career, I started playing with that as a vehicle to kind of unlock student voice and choice.
Nicole DysonGUEST
And the second was entrepreneurial pedagogy.
Nicole DysonGUEST
standardized assessment models because it unlocks future opportunity.
Nicole DysonGUEST
But if I had to pick a capacity that I want a young person to have in order to navigate life after school, it would be their ability to sit in the uncomfortableness of ambiguity and be confident in their ability to learn through that iterative process.
Phil MurdochHOST
Yeah, and that's where, you know, it sounds like from very early on you were bringing in programs which now have made their way back to the spotlight of project-based learning because, you know, we've all been there where they go, we're doing project-based learning today and drop 30 kids in a classroom, here's your problem, go solve it.
Phil MurdochHOST
But the scaffold... for these children to actually learn how to ask a question, how to iterate, then how to reiterate, how to work collaboratively, and people wondered why it was a failure.
Kristen MooreHOST
And honestly, this is the section most math teachers skip when it comes to trying to fit everything in.
Kristen MooreHOST
But this is the perfect place for some PBL, my friends.
Kristen MooreHOST
And you know what I'm talking about.
Kristen MooreHOST
I'm talking about data and statistics.
Cliff SullivanGUEST
And so that's where teachers will start really coming together, working and making projects.
Cliff SullivanGUEST
That's where along that PBL, that cross-curricular work is going to happen.
Cliff SullivanGUEST
That level is where you're a trailblazer.
Cliff SullivanGUEST
So you're at the trailhead and now you're cutting the trail away.
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Leslie EavesHOST
I haven't added to my classroom.
Leslie EavesHOST
I haven't shifted my thinking.
Leslie EavesHOST
And so what you're talking about is this very, I mean, I am the PBL program director, so maybe there's a bias here, but it is a very PBL, project-based learning, problem-based learning approach to adult learning.
Leslie EavesHOST
And that is one of our considerations here is planning professional learning around adult learning practices.
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