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Prestigious Buck Institute Revisits Collegiate Faculty

3/21/2017

More than 30 teachers from all three divisions of Collegiate School participated in a Project Based Learning (PBL) session today with a representative from the Buck Institute for Education, a nonprofit organization that offers professional development for teachers on how to design, assess and manage projects that engage and motivate students.

Last summer, Collegiate welcomed on campus a PBL instructional coach from the Buck Institute to lead a three-day PBL 101 Workshop for these same34 faculty members. Each teacher who attended created a PBL unit to implement in his or her classroom. After the workshop, the Buck Institute conducted a survey of the participating teachers and administrators and used that data to develop a session tailored to the teachers’ goals and to provide instructional coaching.

A Buck Institute coach returned to campus last October for a follow-up visit with those teachers, and today’s visit was a final follow-up session. (This summer, a new group of Collegiate faculty will participate in another PBL 101 three-day workshop.)

Susan Droke, Collegiate’s Academic Dean, facilitated the Buck Institute visit to campus to provide more teachers with the opportunity to learn and grow. Had the School chosen to send teachers to the Buck Institute headquarters in California, she said, only a few would have been able to benefit from the Institute’s impressive work.

“We are a community of learners, and the Buck Institute has provided this PBL cohort the opportunity to engage in deep thinking and collaboration as they planned and implemented new instructional strategies in their classrooms this year,” Mrs. Droke said.

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