What is Design-Based Learning?
- Time-tested technique proven to raise test scores
- Highly effective with ELL and learning disabled students
- Applicable to all California standards
- Reduces teacher burnout
- No special classroom supplies or equipment required
How Design-Based Learning Works
DBL "sneaks up on learning" by engaging students'
innate curiosity
and creating a fun, interactive
environment that develops higher-level reasoning
skills in the context of the standard K–12 curriculum.
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Design-Based Learning Programs
“Design-Based Learning is an amazing paradigm shift for enabling students to learn. I can’t wait to hear the powerful dialogue between my students.”
—Amy O’Neal, Eighth-grade English teacher,
2005 Summer Institute participant
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