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Imagine This is a podcast about what’s possible in classrooms.
Hosted by Dylan Ismail from Classmate, a team that partners with educators to co-create fun, collaborative learning experiences, this podcast blends reflection and storytelling. Each episode, Dylan talks with educators from across the school-age spectrum, and sometimes with his own colleagues, to explore the innovative and creative ways they’re inspiring students, and what they’re learning in the process.
What surprises educators? What works with their students? And what are they trying to figure out? Join Dylan and learn everything you need to know about Classmate and creating ambitious ways to inspire learning in students.
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What is Imagine This - Ideas & Stories for Creative, Meaningful Teaching?
Imagine This is a podcast about what’s possible in classrooms.
Each episode features conversations with teachers who are building meaningful, creative (and sometimes boldly real-world) projects — the kind that help students create work that matters beyond school. From documentary field trips and immersive role-playing games to student-made podcasts and more, we explore ideas that make learning feel alive.
Hosted by Dylan from Classmate — a team that partners with educators to co-create fun, collaborative learning experiences — the show blends reflection and storytelling. Some stories come from classrooms we collaborate in; others come from schools and educators we meet along the way. Each episode includes a teacher interview alongside reflection from the Classmate team on what worked, what surprised us, and what we’re still learning.
This show is for K–12 educators (and really anyone who cares about learning) who want school to feel more meaningful, more imaginative, and more real.
Dylan Ismail: [00:00:02] Imagine this: you're standing in front of your classroom with no slide deck, just sound effects queued up for a D&D-inspired storytelling lesson that you wrote for characters your students created. Imagine this: you've taken your class to the aquarium with backpacks full of iPads and shot lists in their hands. Your students are about to shoot their own nature documentaries. Well, you can stop imagining. Imagine This is a podcast about what's possible in classrooms. I'm your host, Dylan Ismail from the Classmate team. Each episode, I sit down with educators from across the province and sometimes with my own colleagues to talk about the creative, wildly ambitious projects they're tackling with their students. We'll get into what inspires them, what worked, what totally surprised them, and what they're still trying to figure out. If you're a teacher who wants school to feel a little bit more alive, or you just care about what learning can look like, this show's for you. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, and we'll see you there.