Is there a good way to begin a shift to more PBL lessons? Should they be included in at the curriculum level, or should teams of teachers begin them on their own?

It’s best to think of PBL as not requiring a particular curriculum, but as a way of delivering existing curriculum in a different way. Getting together a group of teachers—either grade level teams or subject-matter teams—and identifying areas of the curriclulum that lend themselves to good projects is a great start. Look at the topics that you feel students aren’t learning well, or resis the most. Those are often good themes for a PBL project.

akonsur: Is there a good way to begin a shift to more PBL lessons? Should they be included in at the curriculum level, or should teams of teachers begin them on their own?

Regarding your first question, I’m wondering if you’ve come across a forum thread in Project Management about, How to encourage teacher implementation?

When I started planning my year, I looked at content that jumped out at me as natural fits for projects.  I then tried to figure out what types of projects I could do what covered my Power Standards or Big Ideas.  You could check out my blog post on, How I started my first project?

Regarding your second question, do you mean intra- or interdisciplinary project design?