Latest Episodes

Developing Self-Regulation Skills through PBL Pt4: Cognitive Skills
December 21, 2015

Educators are daily challenged with wondering why students behave as they do. Join Ginger with her guest Brad Chapin as he highlights the 3rd of the Self-Regulation skill sets: Cognitive Skills. The conversation starts by reviewing the first two of the...

Leveraging UDL for Effective PBL (Practicing PBL # 17)
December 11, 2015

Today’s podcast features 5th grade classroom teacher, extraordinaire, Lisa Parisi who walks us through how Universal Design for Learning (http://www.cast.org/our-work/about-udl.html) works in tandem with Project/Problem Based Learning.

Developing Self-Regulation Skills Through PBL – Pt 3: Emotional Skills (PracticingPBL #16)
November 19, 2015

Brad joins Ginger in-house again for Part Three of Developing Self-Regulation Skills. Brads work teaches PBL teachers how to help children and adults develop better self-regulatory skills for better lives on down the road. In PBL,

Developing Self-Regulation Skills Through PBL-Pt 2: Physical skills continued (PracticingPBL #15)
November 09, 2015

Brad joins Ginger in-house again for Part Two of Developing Self-Regulation Skills. Brads work teaches PBL teachers how to help children and adults develop better self-regulatory skills for better lives on down the road. In PBL,

Creating Zealots of Learning: Beyond Engagement & Motivation (PracticingPBL #14)
October 14, 2015

Ginger and Kevin are in-studio together, chatting about some of the more engaging projects they’ve done separately and together with students. Kevin shares his art camp history and the sort of high-risk program he built which turned everyday kids in to...

Developing Self-Regulation Skills Through PBL Pt 1: Physical skills (PracticingPBL #13)
September 25, 2015

Brad joins Ginger in-house today to help us make connections with his work, helping children and adults develop better self-regulatory skills for better lives on down the road. In PBL, students are intentionally put into situations and challenges that ...

Quick Question With Cindy Sheets – Exercise Their Creative Thinking (PracticingPBL #13)
September 14, 2015

What are some of the short-term problems you have students do to exercise their creative thinking and problem solving “muscles”?  In this quick response, Cindy shares a few smaller problem-based learning activities and several iterations for each.

Wise Words from a PBL Veteran at the Elementary Level (PracticingPBL #12)
September 01, 2015

Cindy Sheets shares a snapshot of the years of experience she has teaching students through project and problem based learning. She shares one of her favorite project ideas for 4th graders is a paleontology project where students get to excavate and “d...

Quick Question with Eric Nentrup (PracticingPBL #11)
August 14, 2015

How do we redirect teachers and/or students when they have the temptation to fall away from the rigors and tasty challenges of PBL back into “playing school.”  Eric takes us on a journey of both teachers and students and why they might find themselves...

Getting The Public Involved In PBL (PracticingPBL #10)
July 27, 2015

Join this fast-paced episode with Ginger Lewman and Eric Nentrup as they talk about getting the public involved in our projects. How do we approach them (spoiler alert: we can play the “teacher card").  And as expected with these two,