Privacy & Compliance

These PBL units are built to be safe for classroom use by design: the web pages collect nothing.

What we collect

Nothing. There are no accounts, no logins, no analytics, no tracking cookies, and no data sent to any server. Everything runs inside the browser. The only thing stored is your language choice, kept in your own browser's localStorage, which never leaves the device.

The one outside request

Pages load a web font (Google Fonts) for display; this can be removed by self-hosting the font for zero external requests. Every page sets <meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer">.

A note on student work

PBL is collaborative: students discuss, research, and produce a solution. Any student writing, recordings, or presentations they create live outside these pages (on paper or in tools your district already vets). Follow your district's policies for any student-created artifacts and for any outside sources students consult during investigation.

How this maps to the rules that protect students

FERPA — no education records are created, stored, or shared by these pages.
COPPA — no personal information is collected from children.
Texas SCOPE Act & TEC §32.151–32.156 — no data collection, targeted advertising, or profiling of minors.
GDPR — no personal data processing; nothing to export or erase.
CIPA — static, self-contained educational content with no user-generated communication.

Accessibility (VPAT-lite)

Semantic headings, keyboard-operable controls, and text alternatives for icon glyphs.
Color choices aim for sufficient contrast; the phase palette is paired with text labels, never color alone.
Full right-to-left support for Arabic and Urdu.
Printable facilitator and assessment pages for offline, low-bandwidth use.

Standards & framing

Standards are aligned to, not reproduced from, the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies (19 TAC Chapter 113). Alignments are a good-faith, paraphrased mapping. Effect sizes cited in the units come from the Visible Learning MetaX synthesis and are used to justify the surface → deep → transfer design; they are not claims about any individual classroom.