ForgePBL gives every teacher the expertise to plan, run, and assess authentic project-based learning so that students build the skills they need to succeed in a complex world.
Free while ForgePBL is in its Fall 2026 pilot. No card, no trial period.
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How It Works
From planning to assessment and everything in between.
Scenario confirmed
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.
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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.
Still have questions about the framework, the planning process, or whether ForgePBL is right for your context? The chat at the top of this page is open, and needs no account.
What took a week of research now takes one conversation.
Ready to build something real?
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 1Direction
A confirmed scenario, professional role, and background knowledge summary — enough to pitch the project or approach a community partner.
Tier 2Blueprint
Everything in Tier 1 plus a complete phase structure with specific deliverable requirements — enough to finalize your timeline.
Tier 3Full Plan
Session-by-session plans for every phase, with mini-lessons, feedback cycles, and accommodation documents.
How would you like to begin?
Choose a starting point below.
Start a new project
Fill in your project context and ForgePBL will walk you through the full planning sequence from Brainstorming.
Resume a project plan
Pick up where you left off on a project you've been working on.
Takes you to the chat on the Home tab — Authentic PBL, the planning process, or whether ForgePBL fits your context.
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Project Context
Fill in what you know. You can edit any field during planning.
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A working title for your project list. Naming can also happen through conversation with ForgePBL.
Science
ELA
Math
Social Studies
Art
Music
Health
PE
Technology
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Research
Written Comm.
Oral Comm.
Analytical Thinking
Self-Management
Tech Fluency
Collaboration
Required fields: Direction and Grade Level
Upload a Plan
Upload a ForgePBL export to resume planning, or any project document for ForgePBL to use as a reference.
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PDF, Docx, or Markdown — max ~50,000 characters
ForgePBL will summarize what it finds and confirm with you before planning begins.
PBL Advising
A PBL expert, on call
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Project Library
A growing library of exemplar projects built with ForgePBL's plan-document template — hand-picked to show what a strong, authentic PBL plan looks like at every grade band and subject. We're building this out with real CLC teacher projects first, before scaling it up.
✓ Your work saves automatically and syncs to your account — pick up from any device you sign in on. Backup to file is optional, useful if you want a personal copy or need to restore a deleted project.
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Backed up to file
Your planning session has been saved as a .forgepbl-session.json file. Keep it somewhere safe — your Downloads folder or a project folder works well.
You don't need to do this every session.
ForgePBL saves your projects automatically to your account. Use Resume a project plan on the home screen — from any device — anytime to pick up where you left off.
⚠ Important
Deleting a project from Resume a project plan is permanent. A file backup lets you recreate a deleted project if needed — restore it via Resume a project plan → Restore from backup file.
Pilot Access Required
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