{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Imagine This - Ideas & Stories for Creative, Meaningful Teaching","title":"Student Agency, From Someone Who Experienced It with Finny Bicycle","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3200,"description":"What does high school feel like when students get two full weeks to work on one thing they chose themselves?\nIn this episode of Imagine This, Dylan sits down with Finny Bicycle, a recent graduate of Imagine High in Chilliwack, BC. Imagine High is a public integrated arts and technology school of about 300 students, where English is paired with another subject like 20th century world history or outdoor ed, teachers get shared prep time to build projects together, and twice a year every regular class stops for two weeks so students can go deep on one thing. Finny spent every one of those deep dives building miniature dioramas: a run-down city street where the pedestrians have tiny blue LEDs glowing in their hands, a forest fire made of stuffing and airbrush sitting next to the highway that helped cause it.\nFinny describes what integrated learning actually looks like from a student desk, why the public exhibition at the end of a deep dive changes how hard students work, and what it was like to stand back and watch strangers find the message buried in the details of his own artwork. He also walks through the Grade 11 social justice assignment that turned into a school newspaper club, kept running for two more years, and published three issues a year of original student writing and school journalism.\nAt the Deeper Learning Conference this summer, Finny co-led an hour-long workshop for a room of principals, teachers, fellow students and educational leaders, running them through the same brainstorming process focused on student agency that his class used. He starts at the University of the Fraser Valley this fall, taking history and sociology with a teaching program to follow.\nThis conversation is for educators who want to know what student agency looks like from the other side of the desk, and for anyone who suspects the fastest way to find out whether a school is working is to ask a student.\n\nAbout Finny Bicycle\nFinny Bicycle is a recent graduate of Imagine High. He...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/TPvf0RaL7cU2BkGfXxV7sfEevEpXsS5-4276iv0U_BU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iYjll/YzBhZjczMjcyMjFh/ZGI5NjI4YzIxOTNj/Y2I3NS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}