Unleashing Student Agency with Project-Based Learning: How to Design Authentic Experiences That Solve Real-World Problems

Reignite student enthusiasm and agency with meaningful projects that make an impact beyond the classroom.

More than half of U.S. students feel disengaged from school, a disenchantment that increases as they progress from elementary to secondary grades. But project-based learning expert Suzie Boss has seen how students at all levels can reengage through meaningful projects--individual, group, or whole-class--that tap into their passions and make a difference in the world. Careful planning is key! Boss shows how to make such learning experiences both empowering and instructive: a way for students to apply and extend essential content-area understandings while building valuable collaboration, communication, and critical thinking skills.

In Unleashing Student Agency with Project-Based Learning, Boss offers

• Guidance on helping students find worthy problems to solve.
• Instruction on how to design projects and connect students with experts and community allies.
• Detailed descriptions of real student projects, with explanations of the strategies and collaborations that led to student success.

This book will leave you inspired and equipped with the techniques, structures, and resources needed to launch transformative projects that boost students' sense of themselves as problem-solvers and a positive force in the world.