TEACHTHOUGHT

PBL GROW 20 CONFERENCE

PROJECT-BASED LEARNING

June 22-24, 2020 Louisville, KY

Our 4th Annual Grow Event

June 22-24, downtown Louisville, KY!

Join educators from around the world to grow your teaching craft!

Just as with prior years, Grow 20 will be centered around our popular Foundations of PBL Workshop and held at the amazing Leadership Louisville Center!

We’ve been excited and honored by the growth of this open-registration professional learning event that has drawn pre-k to post-secondary educators from right here in Kentucky and across the US to places as far as Cambodia, Guatemala, Saudi Arabia, and South Korea!

Grow your teaching craft through project-based learning! You’ll leave with a project for implementation in your setting.

Soft drinks, coffee, and lunch will be provided each day and all participants will receive Certificates of Completion.

*this event is limited to 60 seats

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Schedule

PBL Day 1 – June 22

8:30-3:30

Focus: Project Design & Planning

You’ll start the day diving into the foundations of PBL and effective project design. Make meaning of the TeachThought PBL Design Levers like “Rich Inquiry” as you explore the critical pedagogical relationship between your Driving Question and the Need to Knows that align with your content and skills. Begin your project ideation and development before getting some peer feedback to help you refine your thinking.

Lunch – All Thai’d Up

PBL Day 2 – June 23

8:30-3:30

Focus: Project Scaffolding & Assessment

Today you’ll collaborate with your peers to explore and deepen your understanding of “Meaningful Assessment” in PBL. Grading? Presentations? Products? Rubrics? Yes to that and more! As you start to scaffold and sequence your project you’ll get coaching and feedback to help ensure students are learning through the project. Before the day ends you’ll get more peer feedback as you refine your project towards “Craftsmanship“.

Lunch – Panera Bread

PBL Day 3 – June 24

8:30-noon

Focus: Project Implementation & Management

As you head into the homestretch of project development you’ll refine your project design with practical activities examining PBL management issues like student grouping, accountability for individuals/teams, and tools to help keep your project flowing and growing the “Aligned Thinking and Learning” you’re after. Finish your morning work with a tuning protocol to help you give and get peer feedback deepening your understanding of PBL.

Drew Perkins

Director, TeachThought PD

As TeachThought’s Director of Professional Development and co-host of the TeachThought Podcast Drew helps design and deliver workshops and learning both on-site and virtually as well as coordinating PD work with our other Specialists. A graduate of Michigan State University with a degree in Political Science in three years, he was decidedly against the idea of being a teacher. With a mother and grandmother both educators, a stint as a substitute teacher lured him back to earn a teaching certificate in secondary social studies. Thus began a journey that includes 15 years in the classroom and leadership in Michigan, California, Texas and most recently Kentucky and spanned middle and high school, Special Education to Advanced Placement and basketball and golf coaching.

Formerly with the Buck Institute for Education and the Collaborative for Teaching and Learning he has designed and contributed to several PBL models, including the TeachThought PBL Model. Drew continues to deliver professional development and speak internationally. He has been light-heartedly referred to as a professional thought stretcher due to his emphasis on leading through inquiry and questioning.