Format: Guide
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The Makerspace Playbook
Starting a makerspace can be daunting, whether it’s finding a facility and equipment, engaging community members, accessing funding, or dealing with liability, etc. The Makerspace Playbook aims to make it easier to launch a space and get a program up and running. The playbook covers various topics such as setting up a physical space, acquiring…
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Beyond Rubrics Toolkit
While there are many benefits of making and makerspaces, one of the greatest challenges of implementing making in K–12 schools is the question of how to assess collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and iterative making practices and outcomes. The Beyond Rubrics Toolkit has embedded tools to capture evidence of the process of making. This toolkit is our first…
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Cultivating a Repair Mindset Toolkit
The Repair Mindset Toolkit, which was developed and tested by educators, includes teaching and learning strategies, tactics, and classroom materials designed to develop students’ Repair Mindset. The toolkit presents new approaches to thinking routines, invites and complements discussions of the environment (e.g., Circular Economy), economics (e.g., extractive capitalism), politics (Right to Repair), ethics (e.g., social…
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Shaping Educator Learning Communities-A Quick Guide
This quick guide is produced for anyone invested in supporting teacher learning and development. Whether you’re an administrator or non-profit partner, the intention of this guide is to focus your attention as a prospective learning community leader on concrete needs of in-school educators.
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Open Portfolio Journey Map
What’s involved in creating an open portfolio? This overview helps to situate all the pieces to consider, whether it’s the practical actions needed to document learning or bigger questions related to motivation and authentic audiences.
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The Maker Educator Assessment Rubric
This rubric is designed for educators to identify where they are within stages of development along four categories of pedagogy: Goals, Planning Activities & Lessons, Planning Learning Progressions, Facilitation, and Development & Assessment.
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Makerspace @ the Tech cookbook
This comprehensive handbook documents maker-centered programming and activities for a drop-in museum context and includes learning goals, materials lists, set-up, facilitation tips, and more!
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MakerEd’s Youth Makerspace Playbook
This comprehensive handbook for educators in any setting offers practical suggestions on finding spaces to make, outfitting spaces with tools and materials, exploring the possible educational approaches within spaces, and sustaining spaces in the long-term.
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Practical Guide to Open Portfolios
This guide distills some of the best practices for documentation and portfolio creation as a means of assessment in maker-centered learning environments