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Fox River Consortium highlights project-based learning, reports credit gains and rising PBL completion time
Summary
Principal Katie Przybylski and staff told the Burlington Area School District Board that the Fox River Consortium (FRC) served about 43 students this year, completed roughly 422 PBLs for 211 credits, and lengthened the average time students spend on a PBL from about 5.3 days to 22.9 days as the program was redesigned.
Katie Przybylski, principal of Fox River Consortium, told the Burlington Area School District Board that the alternative high school served about 41 students earlier in the year and 43 at the time of the presentation, and that the program’s primary model is project-based learning (PBL). "A PBL is this structured ... extended inquiry based projects," Przybylski said, describing how students demonstrate mastery and earn credit through final products and milestone sign-offs.
Przybylski said FRC staff created about 45 ready-made PBL templates and allow students to propose their own. Examples shown to the board included a "Young Professionals" PBL with a mock interview…
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