Category: Maker Ed

  • 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…

  • Engaging Maker Educators a World Away: Similarities and Differences in Singapore

    In the middle of March 2017, Daniella Shoshan and Stephanie Chang criss-crossed the globe to run professional development workshops in Singapore. Here, they reflect on their experiences.

  • LEGO Education Maker Curriculum

    LEGO Education Maker Curriculum https://education.lego.com/en-us/lessons?Subjects=Maker&pagesize=24

  • STEAM at Drew Charter

    STEAM at Drew Charter http://steamatdrew.weebly.com/steam-trunks.html

  • District Administration Special Report, “Makerspaces: Meeting of the Mindsets”

    District Administration Special Report, “Makerspaces: Meeting of the Mindsets” https://www.districtadministration.com/makerspaces

  • Intention and Impact at Grass Valley’s Black History Month Family Maker Night

    Intention and Impact at Grass Valley’s Black History Month Family Maker Night

    This past Thursday, Maker VISTA partner site Grass Valley Elementary School in Oakland, CA held a Black History Month Family Maker Night & Heritage Potluck. This event featured a little bit of everything—making, breaking bread, discussion—and a whole lot of one thing: intention. From the night’s theme of honoring and exploring historic and modern contributions…

  • New Jersey Makers Day: Celebrating Maker Culture Statewide

    About the Author: Kate Jaggers is Supervising Librarian of the User Services Department at Piscataway Public Library in Piscataway, NJ, and Secretary of the New Jersey Makers Day Board. In addition to overall organization, Kate’s primary role on the NJMD Board is to encourage everyone’s big ideas while also keeping them grounded in reality. Find…

  • Introducing our Making Spaces Schools

    We have been hard at work getting our Making Spaces program up and running and are excited to announce the 7 schools that will be participating as part of the Maker Ed Hub in this nation-wide program. Boze Elementary School – Tacoma WA Harding Senior High School – St. Paul, MN Kailua Elementary School –…

  • All About Circuits

    All About Circuits https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/education/

  • Maker Educator Meetup Playbook

    Maker Educator Meetup Playbook https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F82NW5bZSSib76BwflZvrNXyoemXQuT5fpsR0kW_g04/edit