John Larmer is editor in chief at the Buck Institute for Education (BIE), where he oversees all of BIE’s written products and manages its PBL Blog. He wrote and edited BIE’s project-based curriculum units for high school government and economics, and the PBL "Toolkit Series". In 2015 he co-authored "Setting the Standard for Project Based Learning", published by ASCD. For ten years John taught high school social studies and English and co-founded a restructured small high school, and he was a member of the National School Reform Faculty and school coach for the Coalition of Essential Schools.