The Student-Centered Shift: Empowered International Schools and Classrooms Through Project-Based Learning

Transformative Learning Experiences with Kyle Wagner is a show created for DISRUPTORS and INNOVATIVE EDUCATORS looking to create more socially, globally, emotionally aware citizens and student-centered classrooms through transformative project- based learning experiences. Through 1:1 interviews, Kyle dissects learning experiences from EDNOVATORS just like you, and unpacks the simple strategies and structures that allowed them to happen. To date, over 1,000 classrooms have been transformed through 1,000 + learning experiences.

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Is Your Schedule Working Against Student-Centered Learning? Here's How to Fix It

Apr 30, 2025

They say you can tell a lot about what a school values by looking at its timetable. What does yours say?

If you’re trying to create more time for student-driven projects, real-world connections, and deeper learning, but your current schedule feels rigid and confining, this episode will show you a better way....

Voice and Choice vs. Curriculum Coverage? How One School is Making it Work

Apr 22, 2025

Trying to build more student agency—but feel boxed in by curriculum coverage? What if you didn’t have to choose between voice and academic rigor?

In this episode, I sit down with Natalie Harvey, secondary principal at Beijing City International School (BCIS), to explore how her team is shifting culture around...

Planning Projects Across Subjects? Three Shifts to Make Them Work

Apr 15, 2025

Feeling stuck planning projects across subjects?

It's more common than you think.

Without the right structures, interdisciplinary projects often feel messy, disconnected, and overwhelming — for both teachers and students.

But what if a few small shifts could lead to more engaged students, stronger collaboration...

Is your student data locked away? Use AI to put learning power in student's hands

Apr 8, 2025

What if the real reason students aren't owning their learning... is because the data about their progress stays locked in a teacher's spreadsheet?

In today’s episode, we tackle one of the biggest missed opportunities in education: when rich data about student learning stays hidden from the very people it matters to...

Why Student-Centered Change Fails—and How Leaders Can Make It Stick

Apr 1, 2025

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What if your efforts as a leader to shift classroom practice were falling flat, not because of teacher resistance, but because of how change is being led?

Studies show that only 30% of school change initiatives succeed. Often, it's because the teachers we support in shifting practice feel overwhelmed, unclear,...