by Kyle Wagner | Apr 28, 2024 | Blog
Do you use peer feedback and critique in your classroom? Empowering learners to think critically about their peers’ work is one of the best ways to build a rigorous, student-centered environment, and move from: Teacher assessed – – – –...
by Kyle Wagner | Apr 18, 2024 | Project Examples, Projects
This case study has been written entirely by Gisou Ravanbaksh- A DP Psychology Teacher and Learning Designer at Beijing City International School (BCIS). The Background: As a DP Psychology teacher, I grapple with the challenge of covering a vast curriculum within a...
by Kyle Wagner | Apr 15, 2024 | Blog
Who owns your classroom walls? When I was given the keys to my first Humanities classroom 15 years ago, I owned the walls. I even brought my mom in to decorate. We brought fabric from the store and outlined whiteboards; laminated and enlarged photos of past...
by Kyle Wagner | Apr 4, 2024 | Blog
Happy start of April! Can you find the teacher in the picture above?? This isn’t an April fools joke. There is definitely a teacher if you look closely enough; just not in their traditional form. Instead, the teacher appears in the form of a small petri dish and...
by Kyle Wagner | Mar 26, 2024 | Blog
Can you smell the fresh cherry blossoms? Spring is finally here, and I imagine you are either on, or a few days away from a well deserved Spring Break. Spring is a time for renewal, reflection, and re-imagining. How might you re-imagine a...
by Kyle Wagner | Jan 4, 2024 | Blog, Project Examples
This project write up was written in its entirety by Kristin Lizotte, a grade 3 teacher at Kearsarge Regional School in New Hampshire: The Background I will admit I was very skeptical about using Chat GPT, despite the wave of emails and articles claiming that it would...