by Kyle Wagner | Mar 18, 2022 | Blog, Model United Nations, Projects
This spotlight experience is shared in its entirety by Rafael Villaseñor Santiago, the Director of Innovation at Colegio Champal in Mexico. His school took on the challenge of holding an Emergency Security Council Model United Nations Meeting in response to the...
by Kyle Wagner | Feb 28, 2022 | Blog, Model United Nations, Projects
Like many of you, I am saddened, disheartened, shocked and outraged by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine over the past weekend. Why did this happen? How could this happen? But I am even more inspired by how fast the global community has responded. Several countries...
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 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 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...
by Kyle Wagner | Oct 19, 2021 | Blog, Project Examples, Projects
This PBL case study is from Elio Grieco, Founder/CEO of EGX and partner for CodeDay Phoenix. Learn more about Elio at egx.org. The Background After about two decades in technology, from startups to working at Amazon, the mismatch between the way jobs actually operate...