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  • Meet Dora Medrano Ramos – Building Capacity for Liberatory Defiance

    Meet Dora Medrano Ramos – Building Capacity for Liberatory Defiance

    This week, as we celebrate Learning in the Making’s first birthday, we have two incredibly special posts featuring Linda Le and Dora Medrano Ramos, who started Learning in the Making last year. In this post, we chat with Dora: educator, math healer, undocumented immigrant, and big dreamer redefining who gets to be called a “maker” and what is considered “making.”

  • Freedom Dreaming with Linda Le

    Freedom Dreaming with Linda Le

    This week, as we celebrate Learning in the Making’s first birthday, we have two incredibly special posts featuring Linda Le and Dora Medrano Ramos who started Learning in the Making last year. In honor of a year’s worth of  amazing Learning in the Making episodes we talk with LITM co-creator, Linda Le: an educator, activist, eater, and maker of memories, meaning, and things. 

  • #dorasmathchannel: Let’s talk math anxiety

    #dorasmathchannel: Let’s talk math anxiety

    What is math anxiety? Math anxiety is realized when engaging with math causes a mental shut down. It can show up as panic, stress, anger, the inability to talk about math from a fear of being wrong, negative associations, or a brain freeze, among others. Learn more from our resident Math Champion, Dora!

  • 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 […]

  • Math Affirmations: I Am a Mathematician

    Math Affirmations: I Am a Mathematician

    Practicing positive affirmations is a way for us to heal our math anxiety in order to build our math confidence and resilience! Find an affirmation that speaks to you (or write your own!) Keep it somewhere you see regularly. Say the affirmation to yourself and repeat it often, especially when you notice a negative thought start to appear. It might seem difficult at first, but over time, you can build a positive math identity and you will be able to see yourself as a thinker and doer of math! 

  • Explora: cultivating an ecosystem of maker educators in New Mexico

    This article is part of a series of interviews with our partner organizations in the Making Spaces program. Read more Hub Highlights here.  Meet Explora Explora Science Center & Children’s […]

  • Maker Education can (and must) meet this moment

    Education is a political space, and it is dangerous to think of education as neutral. The transition into 2021 did not cure a global pandemic, deep racial injustice in America, […]

  • Agency by Design Oakland: Responding to the demands of distance learning in a digital divide

    This article is part of a series of interviews with our partner organizations in the Making Spaces program. Read more Hub Highlights here.  Meet Agency by Design Oakland Agency by Design […]

  • FREE PRINTABLES: 2021 Calendars

    Happy New Year! Remember last year how we made a bunch of plans and 2020 was like “I do not care about one plan you have!”? Yeah, well, us too, […]

  • Imagining a “future world vivid with culture and diversity” – digging in with Jake Montano

    Imagining a “future world vivid with culture and diversity” – digging in with Jake Montano

    Maker Ed chats with Jake Montano: a lover, fighter, spirited learner, and guest host on Learning in the Making: Puppets!