“Students want power over their environment and a sense of mastery over worthwhile skills and ideas.”

- PBL Associates

“Human beings want a sense of autonomy and a sense of achievement. If I don't give that to my employees, I am wasting their minds.”

- Jack Welch

Our Mission

We empower teachers to create an emotionally and intellectually safe, collaborative atmosphere, where students wrestle with challenging tasks and the big ideas of life...where students feel that everyone has something to contribute to a final product that is beautiful, powerful, and meaningful.

We empower teachers to shift responsibility and accountability to students for creating high-quality work representative of their craftsmanship, their will power, and their attention.

Why give our students anything less?

“What a wonderful asset PBL Associates has been to our teaching team. We have been exploring PBL units for two years. It was a pleasure to have them in our school for two full days this fall. They worked directly with our teachers to provide training and leadership to keep us moving forward in our quest to become more "project focused." Tristan de Frondeville, in particular, was knowledgeable, helpful, patient, and committed as he helped us design high quality projects. I look forward to a long term relationship as our staff develops more project based units.”

Meg Turner
Principal
Buncombe County Early College
"Changing Possibilities" for All Students