by Kyle Wagner | Jan 24, 2021 | Blog, Project Examples, Projects
THE BACKGROUND Andrew Morrissey, a grade 10 Individuals and Societies IB teacher at Beijing City International School was finding his “Causes of World War One” unit falling on deaf ears. His teenage students, while finding the topic interesting from a...
by Kyle Wagner | Jan 18, 2021 | Blog, Project Examples, Projects, Remote Learning
THE BACKGROUND The community garden project started with a simple question: What impact can growing our own gardens have on our community? Lua Yagangagi, a mixed- age primary teacher in Rizhao, was hoping some of the problems of social distancing, anxiety, and...
by Kyle Wagner | Jan 10, 2021 | Blog, Project Examples, Remote Learning
The holidays were fast approaching and Emily Burk, a Secondary Makerspace leader was wondering how to keep her students engaged. Her 9th-12th grade students were completely checked out of the mandated online curriculum, and because of CoVid, their opportunities for...
by Kyle Wagner | Dec 17, 2020 | Blog
After a few conversations with school leaders across East Asia, I learned that the #1 thing keeping them up at night is configuring the master schedule. It makes sense. How do you configure a master schedule with teachers still stuck across the world, new laws around...
by Kyle Wagner | Dec 17, 2020 | Blog
If you are anything like me, curling up with a good book next to a warm heater or fireplace is the ideal way to spend winter break. And while I wouldn’t want you to spend too much time ruminating over the first half of what must have been the most wild school...