Jennifer Stillittano, Teacher and Trainer at Central Coast New Tech High School, 2015 Ed Tech Program Graduate

Project Based Learning is the focus of session 10 with Jennifer Isbell, a graduate of the Ed Tech Program. Jennifer shares her experience with Project Based Learning at Central Coast New Tech High School.  She provides an overview of the steps of PBL and how PBL is implement by the staff at  Central Coast New Tech High School. We talk about passion projects and how they fit into the curriculum. Jennifer shares advice for those new to PBL.

Jennifer Isbell Stillittano is a New Tech Network Certified Teacher and Trainer and founding staff member at Central Coast New Tech High School. She is a Project Based Learning and EdTech geek who believes education is the core of progress and happiness in our world. She is passionate about creating meaningful, real world scenarios that challenge herself and her students to practice using the 21st century skills needed to thrive in today’s world. She holds a BA in History from California Polytechnic State University and an MS in Educational Technology from Cal State Fullerton.

Jennifer has given listeners of the Educator to Educator podcast the opportunity to receive a free copy of any project guidelines or the interactive project planning toolkit by using the contact form on PBLLAB.com and mentioning the podcast in the note.

Jennifer has shared other resources.

• Jen’s Essential Elements of PBL Cheat Sheet 
• Her school’s website:  Central Coast New Tech High School  
• New Tech Networks website: New Tech Network
• #PBLCHAT on Twitter: Edutopia Article about #pblchat
• Buck Institute for Education: BIE
• CraftedCurriculum 
• Expeditionary Learning

You can follow her on Twitter at @pbllab @ccnth or @newtechnetwork