SCSD’s
Strategic Plan places an emphasis on Project-Based Learning (PBL) where students develop agency and learn by engaging in rigorous projects (usually in teams) that are carefully planned, managed, and assessed to help students learn key academic content, practice future-ready skills, and create high-quality, authentic products and presentations. This project-based, often technology-infused approach to teaching and learning features real-world, meaningful design challenges and is infused throughout the whole curriculum (often cutting across traditional subject areas). Most importantly, students are often the catalysts for project ideas and design, thus promoting greater student engagement and “ownership” of their own learning. In support of the classroom curriculum, SCSD has enlisted the
PBLWorks and other experts in this area to deliver professional development support to prepare teachers to design and orchestrate PBL projects.