PBLWorks Unveils new TEACH™ Project Units for High School and Elementary School at FETC 2026
New lessons provide ready-to-use Gold Standard PBL Projects
San Rafael, CA (January 12, 2026) – PBLWorks has added new Gold Standard Project Based Learning (PBL) units for high school and elementary school grades to its award-winning TEACH™ web-based curriculum platform. The expansion follows the announcement of middle school lessons in 2025, meaning teachers can now access ready-to-use PBL units with embedded teacher guidance and professional learning across all grades, K-12.
PBLWorks will showcase the new units and demonstrate the TEACH platform in booth 745 at the FETC 2026 conference January 11-14, 2026 in Orlando, Florida.
“Project Based Learning is transformative, engaging students in deeper learning and teaching critical skills that prepare them for lifelong success,” said PBLWorks CEO Bob Lenz. “We created TEACH to help more school districts implement and scale Gold Standard PBL, and we are pleased to be able to offer it for students from kindergarten through 12th grade.”
PBLWorks is a national provider of professional development for high-quality Project Based Learning. TEACH makes PBL implementation easier for teachers and school leaders by providing ready-to-use, standards-aligned, Gold Standard PBL projects. TEACH leverages PBLWorks’ deep expertise and decades of experience to make high-quality PBL projects accessible to all teachers, regardless of their prior experience with Project Based Learning.
The new TEACH units for elementary and high school include projects such as “Pitch Perfect” for fourth and fifth grade social studies in which students become entrepreneurs, creating business ideas that solve real problems in their communities. “Family Financials” is a ninth and 10th grade math project in which students model savings and investment plans for community members using linear and exponential functions.
Each project includes lessons with clear outlines and in-depth, step-by-step instructions and resources to help even novice teachers execute the projects with ease.
In addition to exhibiting at FETC, PBLWorks invites the public to attend free webinars January 29 and February 5, 2026 highlighting the new project units:
● Thursday, Jan. 29, 4 p.m.ET – “Launching High-Quality PBL in Elementary Grades Without Overloading Teachers”
Register: https://pblworks.zoom.us/webinar/register/9017677348114/WN_6U9Gxs0RTI-8jIiQAUoijw
● Thursday, Feb. 5, 4pm ET – “Scaling Authentic PBL in Secondary Schools Without Adding Complexity”
Register: https://pblworks.zoom.us/webinar/register/9017677348568/WN_RtNDKxiiQHeepr6Ac1sYeQ
To learn more about TEACH or request a demo visit https://www.pblworks.org/teach.
About PBLWorks
The Buck Institute for Education/PBLWorks believes that all students, especially Black and Brown students, should have access to high-quality Project Based Learning to deepen their learning and achieve success in college, career, and life. Its focus is on building the capacity of teachers to design and facilitate high-quality Project Based Learning, and on supporting school and system leaders in creating the conditions for these teachers to succeed with all students.