Over the past few weeks we’ve been working with Kerr Mackie primary school in Leeds, to help them introduce project-based learning (PBL). Whilst PBL is being enthusiastically received in the US, over in the UK, it still attracts scepticism. In part, this is due to some fairly bad experiences students had in the 70s and 80s. We’ve been coaching people to ensure that their projects have clear learning outcomes, carefully planned timelines, and real, authentic products, or services which drive the learning. Too much of what passes for PBL, is actually conventional teaching, with a two-week half-arsed piece of model-making …