Dear members of Problem / Project Based Learning SIG:

We hope you and your loved ones are all of these: safe, healthy and happy.

The 2026 AERA Annual Meeting will take place April 8 – 12, 2026, in Los Angeles, CA. As you prepare your proposals for the 2026 annual meeting, we invite you to consider submitting your work to the PBL/PjBL SIG.  Although proposals with connections to this year’s theme are very welcome, our review criteria focus on papers and symposia showing explicit connections to PBL/PjBL Approaches in learning contexts. 

Aligned with our Journal, IJPBL, our SIG is interdisciplinary, spans contemporary problems, and welcome diverse methodologies. We are also interested in developing inter- global conversations - please join our investigation about teaching and learning and add your perspective, questions and innovations!

As program chairs, we welcome practitioners, emerging, and experienced researchers. This year at AERA we will offer an award for papers at each area, an exciting networking opportunity, and also a mentoring session for new scholars. The deadline for submissions is July 25, 11:59 p.m. PT.

We hope you will consider submitting proposals to our SIG! If you have any questions, please contact one of us:

Chair, Emily Adah Miller, emily.adahmiller@uga.edu

Program Chair, Audra Skukauskaite, audra@ucf.edu

Communications Chair, Tingting Li, tingting.li1@wsu.edu

and Treasurer, Mary English m.english@northeastern.edu