Supporting IBL/PBL: What Administrators Should Know & Do

This course is designed to help administrators understand how utilizing the 3Cs, rethinking the use of current staff time, and more, can be critical to helping Inquiry- or Project-Based Learning take hold and flourish in the building and community.  

Description of Product: 
While Ford NGL believes that all academy and executive principals should fully participate in teacher professional learning about inquiry- or project-based learning, an administrator has a different, and important, role supporting teachers to develop both expertise and comfort in making inquiry- and project-based learning a regular part of their instructional practices. This course is designed to help administrators understand how utilizing the 3Cs, rethinking the use of current staff time, and more, can be critical to helping IBL/PBL take hold and flourish in the building and community.  

Features of Product 

  • Provides a overview of inquiry/project-based learning 
  • Creates a space for administrators to think about how to use the 3Cs (Communiciation, Collaboration, Coordination) and the repurposing of existing time in the schedule to support teachers as they create high-quality IBL/PBL 
  • Voices from the Field about getting systems and structures right to support IBL/PBL 


Product Line Connection: 
Strands 1 & 2 in the Roadmap Process; Community-connected Learning (CCL) 


Target Audience: 
Building- and district-level administrators and instructional coaches Comment end  


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Course Includes

  • 26 Lessons