How as educators can we empower student environments for proactivity? In this episode, our hosts Matt and Mel explore in-depth the issue of student proactivity and the role of educators in the empowerment of students in the classroom. They put emphasis on delegating responsibility early in K12, and scaffolding from low-risk to high-risk decision making.

Episode Summary An interview with the BQ founders - Part one of a five-part series. Part 1 - The history behind Burning Questions as a student-led event. In this episode, we go back in time to when Burning Questions first started. Joffy Conolly, Sharanya Menon, and William LaFleur are previous Education and Globalisation (EdGlo) students who were the first event organizers of Burning Questions. They shed light on the founding story of BQ and why and how they went about questioning their basic assumptions about education. They talk about the reasons behind why they designed the event to include dialogic discourse, empowering all stakeholders in the educational communities.

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