About: Mission-based learning

Mission-based learning (MBL) is a student-centered approach created by the Smithsonian EdLab at the National Postal Museum. It encourages students to make meaningful connections between themselves, their communities and the global community. Students build upon prior skills and use critical thinking, research skills, creativity, independent and collaborative work to solve authentic, relevant issues facing the modern era. Students employ diverse tools of the 21st-century classroom to broadcast their solutions and positively impact the global community.