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Meet Donaldo Almazan – Artist and Engineer Designing Maker Ed’s Online Community

April 26, 2022 by Jacqueline Garrett 2 Comments

Meet Donaldo Almazan – Artist and Engineer Designing Maker Ed’s Online Community

In this post, we meet Donaldo Almazan (he/him), an artist and engineer helping to create Maker Ed’s online community for makers and educators, which is launching this summer! Tell us a little more about you. Hello! I’m Donaldo, a Community Engagement Co-lead at Maker Ed. I’m originally from South Texas (Rio Grande Valley ☀️ ) […]

Filed Under: Community, Maker Ed, Maker Ed Staff, Meet a Maker, News Tagged With: Education, for educators, for youth, Tinkering, Young Makers

Meet Isabel Emmons — Designing for Human Happiness

March 24, 2022 by Jacqueline Garrett Leave a Comment

Meet Isabel Emmons — Designing for Human Happiness

In this post, we meet Isabel, (she/her/hers) a positive and cognitive psychologist focused on bridging joy and play with community engagement and facilitation to build a fun, diverse, robust Maker Ed network.  Tell us a little more about you. I studied human happiness and brain science because I’m interested in the ways we understand, cultivate, […]

Filed Under: Community, Maker Ed, Maker Ed Staff, Meet a Maker Tagged With: art, Education, meet a maker, Staff, Tinkering

Meet Tamekia Jackson — On Stories and Empathy

February 17, 2022 by Raquel Trinidad Leave a Comment

Meet Tamekia Jackson — On Stories and Empathy

Tell us a bit more about yourself… I am an actress turned writer and educator. As a traveler, reader, and storyteller with a theater maker’s foundation, I consider myself fortunate to have lived and traveled to many different places. This has increased my sense of empathy and understanding that we all value different things and […]

Filed Under: Ask a Maker Educator, Maker Ed, Maker Ed Staff Tagged With: Staff

A Reflection from Aaron Vanderwerff

January 28, 2022 by Jacqueline Garrett Leave a Comment

A Reflection from Aaron Vanderwerff

As I transition into a new role at a different organization, I am reflecting on what I am grateful for and proud of from my time with this remarkable community. During my four years at Maker Ed, I have been grateful to increasingly center equity and liberatory practice. Offering professional development centered in making & […]

Filed Under: Community, Maker Ed, Maker Ed Staff, Meet a Maker Tagged With: Education, Interviews, Staff

Meet Dora Medrano Ramos – Building Capacity for Liberatory Defiance

May 5, 2021 by Maker Ed Leave a Comment

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.”

Filed Under: Ask a Maker Educator, Maker Ed, Maker Ed Staff Tagged With: #dorasmathchannel, math, Staff

Freedom Dreaming with Linda Le

May 5, 2021 by Maker Ed Leave a Comment

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. 

Filed Under: Community, Host Interviews, Learning in the Making: LIVE!, Maker Ed, Maker Ed Staff

“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 they are making and doing! This is because youth of color deserve to see engineers, scientists, mathematicians, artists, creators, and makers of color! In this […]

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…

Filed Under: Maker Ed, Maker Ed Staff, News

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