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“Art is for EVERYONE!” – An Interview with Illustrator and Educator Bri James

December 7, 2020 by Maker Ed Leave a Comment

“Art is for EVERYONE!” – An Interview with Illustrator and Educator Bri James

Maker Ed chats with Bri James, Maker Ed’s Content and Communications Strategist and guest host on Learning in the Making: Stamps and Patterns.

Filed Under: Host Interviews, Learning in the Making: LIVE!, Maker Ed, Maker Ed Staff Tagged With: art, Staff

How Not to Give Up on Students: An Interview with Ariel Marchante Ortiz

June 18, 2020 by Maker Ed Staff 1 Comment

How Not to Give Up on Students: An Interview with Ariel Marchante Ortiz

Learning in the Making: Live! invites guest hosts of color on as equal and valued partners and collaborators, so that they can tell their stories and showcase the amazing things […]

Filed Under: Ask a Maker Educator, Growing Up Making, Host Interviews, Learning in the Making: LIVE!, Maker Ed, Maker Ed Staff Tagged With: Interviews

Statement from Our Executive Director in Support of Black Lives and Police-Free Schools

June 5, 2020 by Kyle Cornforth 1 Comment

Power, white supremacy, and capitalism are used to actively neglect, oppress, and murder Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC). I stand in solidarity with the organizers of Black Lives Matter and the Movement for Black Lives and support the direct action of revolution in the streets all around the world. The police in the United States were created to hunt down, arrest, and maintain control over formerly enslaved Black people. This legacy cannot be forgotten in the wake of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery (Georgia), Breonna Taylor (Kentucky), George Floyd (Minnesota), Tony McDade (Florida) and the countless other Black people that have been killed due to racist police violence and white vigilantism. Read more…

Filed Under: Community, Maker Ed Staff, News Tagged With: equity, Leadership

What’s Next? When Learning Isn’t as Usual

March 20, 2020 by Maker Ed Staff Leave a Comment

What’s Next? When Learning Isn’t as Usual

Our mission is to transform teaching and learning, so what happens when the educators we serve are asked to facilitate remote learning with no notice? Or when parents are suddenly expected to provide engaging learning experiences while also juggling work, loss of income, anxiety, and uncertainty?

The public health crisis unfolding around COVID-19 has caused an atmosphere of stress, uncertainty, and fear in all of us. While emergency responses like school and shelter-in-place measures are necessary to keep communities healthy, they will also have a disproportionate impact on those who already struggle to make ends meet. This crisis has exposed what we’ve known for years: that there are deep-seated structural inequities in our education systems. Read more…

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An Update on COVID-19 and Maker Ed’s Programming

March 13, 2020 by Keyana Stevens Leave a Comment

Like many of you, we at Maker Ed have been monitoring the recent developments around the spread of COVID-19 in the United States. We are monitoring local public health recommendations (from the California State Department of Public Health, Alameda County Public Health Department, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) about group gatherings and assessing the situation on a daily basis. 

While at present, no Maker Ed staff is directly affected by the coronavirus, we are taking some precautionary measures to protect the health of our employees and to support our community in following social distancing recommendations. Here are some of the decisions we have made that immediately affect our work: Read more…

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Meet Kyle Cornforth, Maker Ed’s New Executive Director

March 14, 2018 by Maker Ed Staff 4 Comments

Meet Kyle Cornforth, Maker Ed’s New Executive Director

We’re thrilled to announce that Kyle Cornforth has joined Maker Ed as our new Executive Director. She comes to us from the Edible Schoolyard Project, where for two decades she has worked with teachers from all over the world to shift their educational practices and approach. Read more to learn more about Kyle and her approach towards educational transformation.

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Meet Keyana Stevens, our Communications Manager

February 6, 2017 by Keyana Stevens Leave a Comment

Meet Keyana Stevens, our Communications Manager

Although this is an introductory blog post, I’ve actually been at Maker Ed for 6 months now, working behind-the-scenes running our blog, social media accounts, and other communications needs. I’ve […]

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Meet Julia Petraglia, our Program Manager for Making Spaces

February 3, 2017 by Julia Petraglia Leave a Comment

Meet Julia Petraglia, our Program Manager for Making Spaces

I’m new to the idea of labeling myself as a “maker.” At an early age I was labeled as: a musician, a writer, a performer. I thought that this meant […]

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Introducing Katie Barthelow, our new Program Manager for Maker Corps!

July 13, 2016 by Katie Barthelow 1 Comment

Introducing Katie Barthelow, our new Program Manager for Maker Corps!

Hi all! I’m Katie, and I hail from a small island (think 2,000 residents) off the coast of Washington state where I took a ferry to school, and everyone I knew was […]

Filed Under: Community, Maker Corps, Maker Ed, Maker Ed Staff

Meet Daniella, our new Maker VISTA Program Manager!

July 12, 2016 by Daniella Shoshan Leave a Comment

Meet Daniella, our new Maker VISTA Program Manager!

When I was young, my favorite things to make were: sandwiches my brother laugh believe I was somehow both incredibly shy and incredibly bossy. I followed rules on the outside and […]

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