Living On The Edge of Chaos 152: Loni Bergqvist and the power of PBL
In this episode, I am sharing a conversation I had with Loni Bergqvist. Loni Bergqvist serves as the Founder//Partner at Imagine If. Loni was (and always will be) a teacher.
Loni started her career in education teaching at a traditional school in San Diego, California. She became a project-based learning 'convert' when she started attending night school in Leadership at the High Tech High Graduate School of Education. She began to try (with little success) to do projects in her own class. Loni could see very clearly that her students needed real-world projects desperately but would probably never have access to this type of learning.
Loni left her school to teach at High Tech High, knowing one day her mission would be to bring project-based learning to students who needed it the most; the ones who were in traditional schools.
Since 2014, Loni has been working with schools around the world to re-imagine education. Her project-based learning expertise has been used in several international initiatives, including REAL-Projects (Innovation Unit, United Kingdom) and LEAPS (Kata Foundation, Denmark).
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TOPICS WE EXPLORE
- Who is Loni Bergqvist?
- How has her experiences in all her roles impacted her insights on education?
- How can give permission for educators to be at different stages of learning about project based learning just like we expect educators to differentiate for all learners in the classroom?
- Why is it so difficult to do the project first before teaching it?
- Prioritizing space and time for educators to be able to learn while on the job.
- Problem solvers vs. problem identifiers
- Self imposed rules and barriers
- Final thoughts on pbl not being the goal.
YOUR CHALLENGE
Share ideas you gathered from the conversation with us on the socials.
What resonated with you?