by Kyle Wagner | Jan 16, 2022 | Blog
So you ran your first project-based experience with student teams and it was a disaster. 🤦🏻♂️ Some students sat back and watched their teammates do all the work while they played Minecraft. 🤦🏻♂️ One teammate bossed their group around more forcefully than Gordon... 
by Kyle Wagner | Jan 9, 2022 | Blog
Help! Beyond Zoom Breakout Rooms, how do I help students collaborate? This is the challenge an elementary teacher came to me with last week. Lots of innovative teachers are facing the same struggle. But there’s a dead easy way to remedy it: Empower students to... 
by Kyle Wagner | Jan 2, 2022 | Blog, Podcast
When Ayesha Inam moved her co-designed project online, something unfortunate happened. She watched 100% engagement in class dwindle to less than 50% online. Half of her kids weren’t even showing up to lessons. And then she tried something magical. She gamified... 
by Kyle Wagner | Dec 26, 2021 | Blog
At the end of the year, right before Winter Break, I ask the teaching teams that I coach to reflect on their past projects using two reflective questions: What would you keep? What would you throw away? I’m paraphrasing here, but here’s what I heard:... 
by Kyle Wagner | Dec 5, 2021 | Blog
Johnny flipped to the final slide of his presentation on school playground improvements. On the slide was a visual for pull up bars shaped like dinosaur bones. He was hoping this intriguing design would promote more active fitness in his peers. After finishing the...