Project
Design
Lab 2025
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June 23-27
Burlington, Vermont
Creativity at the Center of Learning
Join us at Project Design Lab
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Refuel your creativity and strengthen your teaching practice.
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Design a creative project to deepen student learning and engagement.
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Learn alongside colleagues and master teaching artists.
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Rejuvenate and have fun!
PDL projects use creative engagement – making things we care about – to inspire deep engagement in learning, activate student creativity, and improve your classroom's culture of community and belonging.
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For PreK-12 educators.
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Attend solo or with a team from your school or district.
Earn three graduate credits or 40 hours of relicensing credits.
What Educators Say
This is energizing my curriculum for next year, and into the years to come!
– Dorcey Hogg, Georgia Elementary School
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2024 Courses
The Art Room INsideOUT
For PreK-12 Visual Art Teachers
Refuel your passion for art-making, collaborate with fellow art teachers, capitalize on and strengthen the ways the art room can be an oasis for regulation and well-being, delve into the importance of art exhibits, and create a project plan for ways to share student work with your wider community.
A Culture of Creative & Deeper Learning
Arts-Infused Project-Based Learning
For Educators in all Grades & Content Areas
Explore how arts-infused PBL can strengthen student voice and agency, inspire deeper learning, and build a classroom culture of creativity and collaboration. ​Through hands-on workshops with expert PBL educators and master teaching artists you will leave with a project ready to launch.
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The Bridges to Belonging Project
For Educators in all Grades & Content Areas
The Bridges to Belonging Project brings your school and community together creatively – making things they care about – to celebrate and revitalize the bridges that connect us to each other, and to imagine and build new bridges that ensure our schools and communities are welcoming places where everyone can thrive.
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Joining The Bridges to Belonging Project requires educator teams of three or more that includes a fine arts teacher (visual, music, dance, theater) or language arts teacher.
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What Parents Say
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It ignited a spark in my son that I had not seen – an excitement to learn that I hope he can keep experiencing.
– PDL Project Evaluation
The Details
2025 Project Design Lab
June 23-27 / 9:00am - 4:00pm
University of Vermont / Burlington
Tuition
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$2,000 - Three graduate credits
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$1,790 - Certificate of Participation for 40 hours relicensing credits
$100 later registration fee after May 1.
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Tuition includes a private air-conditioned dorm room with a centrally located private bath at the University of Vermont, plus breakfast and lunch. Everyone is on their own for dinner in Burlington. Lodging is optional.​
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Attend Solo or as a Team
You can attend solo or with a team from your school. Teams can be composed of any combination of educators (classroom teachers, councilors, paras, special educators, staff, administrators) and can be from the same grades and content areas, or mixed.
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Teaching Artist Residency
Teaching artist residencies are optional. If you would like information on selecting and scheduling a teaching artist to co-lead with you the implementation of your project, please complete the PDL Questions Form and we'll be in touch.​
FAQ
Visit the PDL FAQ page for answers to questions about team participation, tuition & fees, lodging & meals, teaching artist selection (optional), and more.
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Project Snapshots
See examples of previous projects created at the Project Design Lab here.
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Questions?
Complete the PDL Questions Form and we'll be back in touch soon.
We invite you to let us know about specific accommodations you may need to participate in the Project Design Lab when completing your Registration Form, and we will make every effort to honor your request.
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