Empowered Learners Through Project-Based Learning Workshop

About this workshop:

Help teachers design and implement a high-quality project- based experience that transforms passive students into active, engaged learners, while providing site leaders and coordinators with the skills to support them.

Objectives:

• · Learn the major components of high-quality project-based experiences
• · Understand difference between ‘doing projects’ and project-based learning
• · Learn how to connect PBL to subject-specific teaching standards
• · Learn the simple 5 step process for effective PBL planning
• · Learn how to develop key 21st century skills and AI literacy in students throughout the project
• · Develop assessment and evaluation measures for the project-based experience
• · Learn how to scaffold the experience
• · Be ready to implement the project with students
  
  

Workshop Leader Biography: Kyle Wagner
Kyle Wagner is the founder and lead [co] learning designer for Transform Educational Consulting Limited, an organization that empowers forward thinking schools and educators to create more globally, socially and emotionally aware citizens through project-based learning. Kyle fell in love with project-based learning as a teacher at High Tech High (the most prominent PBL school in the world) where he witnessed students publish best- selling books, create their own social enterprises, and even influence policy change in the community through real- world projects. He has taken this passion global, helping over 1,000 educators from schools around the world develop their own transformative learning experiences for students. Kyle is also the former co-founder of the innovative micro-school ‘Futures Academy’ at the International School of Beijing, a program that uses interdisciplinary project- based learning to connect students to their passions and the world outside of school. A published author, his book, "The power of SIMPLE," documents this experience and shares how edu- visionaries can create their own vision for learner-centered spaces through simple, research based strategies. Kyle holds a M.Ed. in Teacher Leadership with a thesis that focuses on developing democratic classrooms and distributed leadership models. When not writing or teaching, he is performing with his original band, participating in karaoke contests and traveling the world with his partner. He currently resides in Hong Kong where he spends time developing learner-centered schools of the future while helping other school leaders build theirs.

Agenda (Saturday, Sunday Dec 6-7, 2025)
Day 1 Saturday
07:40-08:00	Registration
08:00 - 9:30 (1.5hs)	Session 1
9:30 – 10:00	Refreshment Break
10:00 - 11:30(1.5hs)	Session 2
11:30 - 12:30	Lunch
12:30 - 14:00 (1.5hs)	Session 3
14:00 - 14:30	Refreshment Break
14:30 - 16:00 (1.5hs)	Session 4

Day 2 Sunday
08:00 - 9:30 (1.5hs)	Session 1
9:30 – 10:00	Refreshment Break
10:00 - 11:30(1.5hs)	Session 2
11:30 - 12:30	Lunch
12:30 - 14:00 (1.5hs)	Session 3
14:00 - 14:30	Refreshment Break
14:30 - 16:00 (1.5hs)	Session 4

Refreshment Break: coffee, tea, bottle waters, snack and fruits
Lunch: school lunch on Dec 6-7, 2025

Registration Fee: USD 450 (RMB3280) per participant
Group Deal: USD 415(RMB 2980) per participant for 5 or more participants
Early Bird： USD 415 (RMB 2980) before 30/09/2025

Refund Policy:

• • If the workshop is canceled for reasons beyond our control and we are unable to find a suitable alternative time for most participants, IES will inform participants of the cancellation and refund the actual paid registration fee only, additional expenses (such as hotel accommodations, transportation, etc.) are not eligible for refunds.
• • If a registered participant notifies IES of their disability to attend before 01/10/2025, IES will issue a refund of the actual paid registration fee. However, if this notification occurs after 01/10/2025, IES will not be able to provide a refund.
• • A 2% transaction fee, charged by the payment platform (not the organizer), will be deducted from any refunds requested before 01/10 /2025

Certificate:E-certificate will be issued after the workshop