Tag: Schools

  • Making as Healing: Reflecting On An In-Person Workshop for Oakland Educators

    Making as Healing: Reflecting On An In-Person Workshop for Oakland Educators

    The last several years have been incredibly difficult for educators. On June 4th, we celebrated a milestone by having our first in-person event since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. […]

  • Calling All Oakland Educators: Making As Healing Workshop

    Calling All Oakland Educators: Making As Healing Workshop

    Are you looking for ways to revive, restore, and reset as you move into summer? Join Maker Ed and Agency by Design Oakland in this day-long, in-person workshop where we […]

  • Addressing white terrorism and anti-Asian hate

    We are writing with broken hearts after eight individuals, six of whom were Asian women, were slain after another devastating event of white supremacy and white male rage in Atlanta […]

  • Getting Started with Making: Three Back-To-School Project Ideas

    Getting Started with Making: Three Back-To-School Project Ideas

    It’s back-to-school time, and one of the best ways to get excited about the new school year is to engage colleagues and/or students in a making activity! Making is an awesome opportunity to get adults and youth excited, have them engage a “hands-on and mind-on” approach. Read more…

  • Maker VISTA: Boosting Capacity at Drew Charter

    Maker VISTA: Boosting Capacity at Drew Charter

    Whether by building mobile STEAM Trunks, creating websites, or forging connections in the community, Maker VISTA member at Drew Charter School in Atlanta, Georgia have made an impact through service. They have also accelerated the integration of making at the innovative K-12 school. Read More…

  • Grass Valley + Maker VISTA: Accelerating Making and Impact

    Grass Valley + Maker VISTA: Accelerating Making and Impact

    Grass Valley was committed to integrating more making into students’ day-to-day learning, but needed a jolt of energy and effort to propel their small staff over initial starting speed bumps. Maker VISTA members, through Maker Ed’s Maker VISTa program, provided that accelerating boost. Read More…

  • Building a Maker and Design Culture Within Schools

    Building a Maker and Design Culture Within Schools

    About the Author: Glenn Robbins is the proud superintendent of the Tabernacle Township School District, in Tabernacle, New Jersey. He is a NASSP Digital Principal of the Year, and SETDA […]

  • Ideas for Sparking Maker Support from Important K-12 Stakeholders

    By Scott Miller It’s an exciting time to be a maker! It is even more exciting to be an administrator that supports and fosters making in our school and community. […]

  • Digital Promise and Maker Ed Launch the Maker Promise

    PRESS RELEASE Digital Promise and Maker Ed Launch the Maker Promise Washington, D.C., March 9, 2016 — Digital Promise, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating innovation in education, and Maker […]

  • Guest Post: Taking the Time for Making

      This guest post was written by Courtney Sears, a second grade teacher at Ephesus Road Elementary School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and a North Carolina Teacher Voice Fellow […]