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=Shipley PLP Team 2010-2011= Sunny Greenberg, Team Leader Antonia Angeles Gonzales Kristin Shipler Liz Cousins Beth Boreanaz Deb Veraldi Mark Tassoni Connie Morin Tina Wattles Wendy Eiteljorg

=﻿Description of the Project= During the play time of PLP, our group became very interested in Project Based Learning. We wanted to know how much of it was going on in our school. We looked at our own courses and evaluated our units of study. What we found was that we each taught itneresting and exciting units, but that very few if any of them would truly be considered PBL units. We had found our problem to address.

Problem
Lack of true Project based learning units in our courses.

Goal
To increase the number of PBL units taught in our school.

Side issues and related goals
Our understanding of PBL was spotty and we did not have a group of critical friends established ready to tackle this. We also identified the need to create a crtical friend group, to develop the capacity of our team as critical friends both to learn together and later to spread our understanding. =Plan=

Phase 1
Using The Buck Institute's online tutorial and our own in-house experts, we came together to learn about the specifics of PBL and to understand the difference between PBL and end of unit projects. We met regularly to debrief and compare our understanding after independently completing each online module.

Phase 2
We began meeting with individual critical friends to think about how to create our own PBL units. This will directly address our stated problem in that it will increase the number of PBL units in the school.