🔥 What is one mindset shift I need to make as a teacher in 2024?

🔥 Why do student-centered approaches matter now more than ever?

🔥 How can generative AI support project-based learning in the classroom?

Join me for this conversation with Hong Kong educator Kyle Wagner as he shares his insights on these and other questions.

About This Guest

Kyle is the founder and lead PBL/Learning Design Coach for Transform Educational Consulting, an organization that empowers forward thinking schools and educators to create more globally, socially and emotionally aware citizens through project-based experiences and student-centered environments.

Kyle is also the former Coordinator of Futures Academy at the International School of Beijing, has 12 years classroom teaching experience, and worked as a Humanities Teacher at world-renowned High Tech High. He has authored The Power of SIMPLE and Where is the Teacher, hosts a popular podcast, and holds an M.Ed. in Teacher Leadership.

Connect with Kyle

on Linkedin,

on X @kwagssd3,

on Instagram @kylewagner3,

on YouTube at @transformschool,

at his website, www.transformschool.com, and

on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/transformyourschool.

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In This Conversation

0:28 – Who is Kyle Wagner?

1:58 – Kyle tells a story of losing his job in his second year of teaching

4:22 – In the age of AI, why do student-centered approaches matter now more than ever?

6:52 – Kyle explains what he means in the title of his book: Where is the Teacher?

9:09 – Shift: Moving student learning from content-driven to inquiry-driven

10:58 – Shift: Moving motivation from grades to problem-solving (deeper purpose)

13:36 – How can Chat GPT power deeper project-based learning experiences?

17:09 – “Simple designs beget complex behaviours”

21:33 – Kyle’s work at the Transformative Learning Experiences Podcast

22:43 – Kyle’s plans for his YouTube channel, ‪@transformschool‬ 

24:34 – A passion outside of education: song-writing

26:08 – A productivity habit: reflecting in his journal every morning

26:58 – Kyle’s morning routine

28:38 – Favorite tech tools: Chat GPT and Canva

29:35 – A book recommendation: The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay 

30:59 – An educator to follow on LinkedIn: Benjamin Freud and Loni Bergqvist on LinkedIn

32:06 – What Kyle’s streaming: Big Bang Theory

33:03 – How to connect with Kyle Wagner and follow him online

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Song Track Credit

Tropic Fuse by French Fuse

GO! by Neffex

*All songs retrieved from the YouTube Audio Library at https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/.