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 | Dec 17, 2020 | Blog, Projects
Background As the presidential election neared its final stages back in October, Kristen Dickey’s 5th grade students had a plethora of questions: What is the electoral college? How does it work? Why do some states get more votes than others? What’s the... 
by Kyle Wagner | Dec 1, 2020 | Blog, Projects
Story of PBL Transformation: Creating Eco-Friendly Busses When I first met Hirotake Wang as a facilitator/ co- founder of Futures Academy at The International School of Beijing, I knew he was special. At 12 years old, he was already trilingual, a standout tennis... 
by Kyle Wagner | Nov 19, 2020 | Blog, Projects
How do you ensure the mental, social and emotional well- being of students when you can’t even see them in person? This is the challenge Mark Myers, a secondary Physical Education teacher faced when he arrived to his quarantined hotel in Ulabaantar, Mongolia.... 
by Kyle Wagner | Jul 26, 2020 | Blog, Project Examples, Projects
Story of PBL Transformation: Community Food Truck When I met with the 5th grade team at Park Maitland, a small school in Orlando, Florida, they were hoping project-based learning could better develop their students as community problem solvers. And while they... 
by Kyle Wagner | Jul 12, 2020 | Blog, Project Examples, Projects
When Anne Robinson, the instructional coach at Gompers Charter School in San Diego approached me, she was hoping her teachers could develop projects that better connected students with the surrounding community. The major challenge was that teachers had no prior... 