Who We Are
Our 3P team strives to support teachers "beyond the classroom" as they implement high-quality, project-based learning experiences for their students. From engineering challenges to social impact projects, students in Muskegon County are not just LEARNING, they're DOING!
What is 3P?
Place-Based Education
The process of using the local community and environment as a starting point to teach concepts across curriculum, connecting student learning to real-world opportunities, challenges, and problems to solve.
Problem-Based Learning
A student centered approach in which complex real-world problems are used as the vehicle to promote student learning of concepts and principles.
Project-Based Learning
A teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging and complex question, problem, or challenge.
Place-Based Learning
Problem-Based Learning
Project-Based Learning
What are the Benefits of an Outdoor 'Classroom'?
Reeths-Puffer's Central Elementary staff and students share their vision for an outdoor pavilion that will serve as a 'classroom' to facilitate an educational space outside.
Muskegon State Park | Loss Lake Trail
See how Project-Based Learning makes curriculum come to life as the entire third-grade class at Reeths-Puffer Central Elementary School, almost 80 students, research and learn about frog species native to Michigan!
Meet Our 3P Team
3P Services & Methods
Our team is passionate about working with educators across local districts, equipping them with the tools necessary to transform learning beyond traditional methods.
Intended Outcomes of Service
- Teachers will gain an understanding of the elements of high-quality 3P learning and attain instructional practices that support this vision.
- Students will experience authentic standards-based learning experiences that allow for student voice and choice, feedback loops, and reflection.
Examples of Service
- Supporting teachers in enacting 3P classroom practice - such as a driving question board
- Planning and supporting the implementation of 3P learning experience within classrooms
- Aiding a school in designing and executing 3P focus across the curriculum
- Teachers participate in summer institutes, dinner and dialogues, and carry out their projects which they celebrate at a youth exhibition of learning in May
Intended Audiences
- Individual or group classroom teachers (grade level, department, etc.)
- School building or district administrator
- School building or district leadership team
- Entire school building or district
Delivery Methods
- Small group meeting facilitation
- Small and large group trainings
- Classroom observations and coaching
- Modeling instructional practices within the classroom
- Individual and small group student support
- Collaboration with administrators or building leadership teams
- Assist building and district level teams as a content expert
- Small group planning with a teacher(s)
- 1:1 consultation - phone, e-mail, in-person
- Analyzing data with a teacher(s) or leadership team
- Coordinating an event, activity, or collaboration
Networks Supported
