ForgePBL
AI-Powered Project-Based Learning
Real projects. Real skills. Real growth.
ForgePBL gives every teacher the real-world expertise to plan, run, and assess authentic project-based learning — at a level AI just made practical.
How It Works
From planning to assessment and everything in between.
Plan
Design a project that actually works.
One conversation builds a real scenario, real deliverables, and a structure that holds up.
Implement
Meet every student where they are.
Plans are implemented with fully differentiated support for every learner without extra planning on your end.
Assess
Assessment that actually informs teaching.
Project deliverables are authentically assessed along the way, ready to guide what comes next.
What Students Actually Build
Seven skills. Built, not outsourced.
Research
Real questions, real investigation, not a summary AI already wrote.
Written Communication
Writing for a reader who's actually going to read it.
Oral Communication
Explaining and defending your thinking, live.
Analytical Thinking
Making the call when there's no answer key.
Self-Management
Owning a body of work start to finish.
Technology Fluency
Using AI as a partner, not a shortcut.
Collaboration
Depending on teammates for something that actually matters.
Identified by the World Economic Forum, ISTE, and NACE as the capabilities most in demand and hardest to automate.
Why ForgePBL
One platform. Not many.
Other AI tools help with a task. ForgePBL runs the whole project.
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The Framework
Rooted in a century of learning science.
ForgePBL's Authentic PBL Framework provides teachers a foundation of project-based learning and instructional design spanning over one hundred years from Dewey to Vygotsky to Bloom to Wiggins — refined over 25 years at one of the oldest project-based learning schools in the US.
Ready to begin? Head to the Planning tab to get started — or chat with ForgePBL first if you have questions about the framework or process.
Have questions about the framework, the planning process, or whether ForgePBL is right for your context? Ask here. Or dive straight into planning from the Planning tab above.
What took a week of research now takes one conversation.
Ready to build something real?
ForgePBL
Real projects. Real skills. Real growth.
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Planning Tools
Choose how you'd like to work.
Full Plan
Start a new project from scratch, or resume one you've been working on — the complete six-stage planning flow.
PBL Advising
Talk through a project idea, troubleshoot something that isn't working, or sanity-check a design decision with a PBL expert.
Upload & Upgrade
Upload a ForgePBL export or any project document and pick up planning from there.
Project Library
Browse exemplar projects built with ForgePBL's plan-document template.
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Plans develop through three tiers — stop at any point, export what you have, and come back when you're ready.
Tier 1 Direction
A confirmed scenario, professional role, and background knowledge summary — enough to pitch the project or approach a community partner.
Tier 2 Blueprint
Everything in Tier 1 plus a complete phase structure with specific deliverable requirements — enough to finalize your timeline.
Tier 3 Full Plan
Session-by-session plans for every phase, with mini-lessons, feedback cycles, and accommodation documents.
A Real ForgePBL Project

Sprout Studio — a spring phenology trail for the Penn State Arboretum. Students worked as an interpretive design studio under a real Arboretum commission, researching, writing, and designing weatherproof trail panels that visitors read today — every panel reviewed by Arboretum staff before fabrication.

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ForgePBL is in active development and piloting with a small group of schools. If you're building something like this in your classroom — or want to — we'd like to hear from you.
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