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Learner-centered project design.

LCC’s project-based learning (PBL) design elements are built into Inkwire, helping educators plan around their district’s learning model, academic standards, and learner competencies.

Learner-Centered Collaborative’s PBL Design Elements, centered on flexible spaces and time, community, and a sense of belonging.

Project-based learning (PBL)

PBL Design Elements

Real-World Learning
Learners tackle real-world problems.
Learner Voice & Choice
Learners make decisions about their learning process, product, and pace, within project parameters.
Collaboration
Learners work in teams, leveraging strengths, sharing responsibilities, and developing interpersonal skills to achieve a common goal.

In practice · Lamont, California

A district’s vision, brought into the classroom.

In Lamont Elementary School District, educators joined a yearlong LCC-supported cohort to develop, teach, and refine projects. Inkwire brought together LCC’s design elements, Lamont’s learning model, and its Portrait of a Learner.

A fifth-grade educator described saving hours on the initial project plan while using her own expertise to adapt activities for her students.

Read LCC’s case study (PDF)

Published by Learner-Centered Collaborative · July 2025

Inkwire is like your coach. It’s prompting you with these questions that train you to internalize this learner-centered mindset.

Kelly Williams

Director of Strategic Partnerships and leader of Lamont’s Learner-Centered Innovation Cohort