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 and student-centered environments. Kyle fell in love with project-based learning and agentic environments 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, and build agentic environments. 

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. His new book, “Where is the Teacher: The 12 Shifts for Student-Centered Environments,” shares stories and strategies from student-centered schools around the world around how to bring each agentic shift alive in the classroom. Kyle holds an 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.