Workshops and Trainings
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Foundations of Early Childhood PBL
This two-day workshop provides you with everything you need to begin implementing PBL in your early childhood classroom. Grounded in the key elements from Implementing Project Based Learning in Early Childhood: Overcoming Misconceptions and Reaching Success, it equips educators with the clarity, confidence, and practical tools to design meaningful, child-centered learning through projects.
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Introduction to Early Childhood PBL
This two-hour introductory workshop helps educators clarify what Project Based Learning is—and what it isn't—in early childhood settings. Participants explore ECPBL’s unique project planning outline and learn how to use student interests, questions, and classroom observations as the foundation for meaningful, learner-centered projects.
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Project Planning for our Youngest Learners
In this half-day workshop, participants will embark on a journey to plan engaging and meaningful PBL units using our specially designed project planning outline for early childhood classrooms. This workshop focuses on integrating content and skills within a PBL structure, providing strategies to support children in sustaining inquiry throughout a unit.
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Embedding Social and Emotional Learning into Project Based Learning
In this half-day workshop, participants deepen their understanding of social and emotional learning (SEL), focusing on skills and competencies that help children become more collaborative and independent learners. The session offers strategies for intentionally integrating SEL into project plans while remaining open to spontaneous learning opportunities.
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Community of Practice
What began as a network for California educators has grown into a welcoming space for school communities everywhere to explore and implement Project Based Learning in early childhood. Through a mix of in-person and virtual sessions, participants gain tools, support, and inspiration to bring meaningful, standards-aligned PBL experiences to life.
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ECPBL Residency
Designed for schools already implementing Early Childhood PBL, the ECPBL Residency supports leaders and teachers in deepening their practice. A facilitator visits the site to observe classrooms non-evaluatively, then collaborates with school leadership to create a customized professional development plan grounded in teacher strengths, needs, and reflections. Elements of this plan may be enacted during the visit itself—for example, the facilitator might observe classrooms in the morning, meet with leaders midday to reflect and plan, and lead a teacher learning session in the afternoon.
