Most teams start with the PBLWorks network public list and supplement it with state department of education project based learning roster data. SleekRank reads the combined sheet as a CSV. A network membership column controls whether a school is labeled PBLWorks network, New Tech Network, or High Tech High lineage.

A controlled vocabulary lives in a separate tab of the sheet with values like PBLWorks gold standard, High Tech High, New Tech Network, Linked Learning, and Big Picture Learning. Each row picks one or more values. The normalized framework drives per framework hubs, so the column is the source of truth for both the text and hub URLs.

Yes. SleekRank groups by the state column and emits one hub per state at /project-based-schools/state/{slug}/. The hub lists every PBL school in that state, and each school page links back to its state hub and framework hub for consistent internal linking across the entire directory.

Each row carries unique fields like framework, grade range, public or private status, accreditation, and state. The template prints those fields in headings and lead copy, so the rendered HTML differs row by row. Schools without enough unique content can be filtered out at build time using a quality threshold.

The network membership column is a regular field. A school that leaves the PBLWorks network gets re labeled "project based independent" without the network badge on the next refresh. No redirect is needed because the school continues to operate and keeps the same slug across the directory.

A public or private filter is a top of page filter. Families and educators can scope the directory to just public or just private with one click. The same filter doubles as a hub URL like /project-based-schools/type/public/, which keeps the long tail SEO benefit intact for both segments of the audience.

Often yes for non branded queries. A hub at /project-based-schools/framework/new-tech-network/state/texas/ ships a real HTML list and an entity rich H1, which tends to outrank individual school pages for "New Tech Network school Texas" style searches because the entity match is tighter and linking denser.

On a typical WordPress install the first build of 350 school pages plus state, framework, grade range, and public or private hubs takes around 12 minutes. After that, only changed rows refresh, so daily cache rebuilds finish in under a minute even when several dozen rows update at once during a network cycle.