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 | 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...