“In teaching, the greatest sin is to be boring.”

- J. F. Herbart

“The sure way to be boring is to tell everything.”

- Voltaire

“Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.”

- William Inge

Download PBL Files

Project Design

The Refining the Driving Question Protocol (word)

Keynote Presentation - Thriving Minds - Dallas 2011

Big Thought Thriving Minds Summer Camp (ppt) - June 2011

High Performance Teamwork

Rules for High Performance Collaboration (word)

Changing Cooperative Norms and Behaviors in the Classroom (word)

Folder of Tools For Teams (zip folder)

Radical Collaboration Scans (zip folder)

21st Century Skills

21st Century Skills - What should our children learn? (pdf)

Project Samples

Build a Cardboard Chair Project - Using the Design Process to Build towards a Higher Quality Outcome (powerpoint)

Miscellaneous

Clueless-Maybe-ForSure Graphic (word)

Math Ideas

Rules for The Ten Game (word) - A powerful K-8 Game and Diagnostic Tool

Rubric Zip Folder

Rubrics Lots ! (Zip) - 200 rubrics for all aspects of PBL

Thinking Minds DISD Summer Camp 2010

The Refining the Driving Question Protocol (word)

Folder of Tools For Teams (zip folder)

Clueless-Maybe-ForSure Graphic (word)