by Kyle Wagner | Feb 9, 2022 | Blog, Project Examples, Projects
How do you plan to honour and celebrate Black History Month with your students? With inequities, social injustice, and racism rearing their ugly heads over these past few years, it’s important we counter them by highlighting the significant contributions black...
by Kyle Wagner | Jan 31, 2022 | Blog
As a learner-centered practitioner, I know I don’t have to convince you that project-based learning is the #1 way to grow critical thinkers, and 21st century problem-solvers. But I reckon you’ve probably had to convince your...
by Kyle Wagner | Jan 26, 2022 | Podcast, Projects
Being an innovative and imaginative Project-Based teacher can be lonely. Sometimes we are the only ones doing this work in the corner classroom of a large school. What if there was a way to expand the audience and find collaborators for our project-based experiences?...
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 5, 2022 | Podcast, Projects
How can play therapy help elementary students cope with the trauma caused by the pandemic? This was the BIG question facing Emily Burk’s (MakerSpace and Technology Integration Specialist) high school students in Anna, Texas. Their task- design play therapy toys...