Topic: Equity Focused
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MakerEd Program Visioning Guide
These visioning activities were created in collaboration with educators across the country during our Making Spaces program (2016-2022). This package is now available to all folx working to integrate hands-on, learner-driven, equitable learning into their work. The 6 modules of activities are designed to support you throughout the program design journey, whether you are teaching…
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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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Transforming Public Education with Making and Digital Fabrication
The white paper, entitled Transforming Public Education with Making and Digital Fabrication, summarizes the history of the maker movement, the current status of maker education and projects a path forward to adoption, quality, and sustainability related to broadening participation in STEM, and more specifically digital fabrication and making. The paper is framed in equity-based story-telling…
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Learning in the Making: Storytelling
Engage the elements of storytelling – character, setting, and plot – to combat stereotypes with this activity video and project guide.
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Learning in the Making: Revolutionary Screenprinting
Learn about the revolutionary applications of screenprinting in the Black Panther Party and try out screenprinting yourself with this activity video and project guide.
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Learning in the Making: Paper Box Motion Story
The Paper Box Motion Story is like a tiny, manual movie theatre! It can be used to summarize information, share learned facts, and even create and tell fictional stories. Follow along with this activity video and project guide to make your own as you read and reflect on Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures: The True…
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Grounded in Community: How SpectrUM Discovery Area Supports Making for Rural and Tribal Youth in Montana
This rich interview with a hands-on museum in rural Montana shines light on how to support making and learning programs for rural and tribal youth.
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From the Creators of Learning in the Making: Live!
In this essay, Dora Medrano Ramos and Linda Le share why they created Learning in the Making, an online video series that serves as a powerful response to the persistent omission of youth of color and educators of color from the dominant narratives surrounding maker education.
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Strawberries and Labor
In this lesson, students examine an infographic on strawberries and labor that shows the connections between strawberry growing, production, and immigration policies.