The shared practices valued by The POGIL Project community include:

• Using inquiry-based learning materials that are structured following the explore/invent/apply learning-cycle model.
• Intentionally developing content knowledge and process skills simultaneously in the learning environment.
• Interacting and collaborating within and across educational levels and disciplines.
• Incorporating insights from educational research that have implications for classroom practice.
• Creating inclusive learning environments for students and instructors.
• Being personally invested in encouraging and supporting the professional development of colleagues.

The foundational ideas for POGIL are that:

• Learners construct their own knowledge.
• Learners negotiate meaning actively through student-student discourse in self-managed teams within an instructor-facilitated environment.
• Effective learning in a team emerges from attending to cooperative learning principles and process skills development.
• Reflection and assessment enhance individual learning, team function, and teaching practice.