St Johns Park High School, under the leadership of Sue French, provide a case study in how to implement project-based learning. Sue originally hosted an open PBL day, in partnership with Big Picture Learning Australia. Having taken part as a participant, she felt that PBL would work for some staff – not all. So she looked for volunteers willing to be trained by us and over the course of 6 days, we worked with about a third of the teaching staff.
A few months later we came back to work with the same staff to support their initial project designs. We often find, during these surgeries, that people need some gentle refreshers on the core elements of effective project planning. Another frequently forgotten piece of advice is ‘start
