Maker Ed

Rehumanizing Math through Maker Education
2021-06-12 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual Event
Let’s learn, make, and reflect on how to rehumanize math classrooms!

About this event

Join us for this hands-on, minds-on virtual workshop where we’ll explore how culturally responsive math teaching and maker education can be integrated to support the histories and identities of math learners. We will engage in a sample math lesson that makes visible how we can rehumanize math classrooms to be more learner driven and hands-on. We will also have time to reflect, discuss, and reimagine how our own teaching practices can incorporate a Culturally & Historically Responsive Literacy framework.
Our approach: Our workshops aim to immerse educators in the experience of learners. No lecturing here — you can expect to be engaged in hands-on, minds-on activities and interactive discussions for the full duration of the workshop. We’ll support you as you reflect on your practice as an educator, learn and collaborate with other participants, and stretch your teaching in new directions.
Who is this workshop for?

Educators of any grade level who use and teach math in their learning space
Anyone interested in exploring ways that math classrooms can be more liberatory and hands on
Anyone with math anxiety who wants to discuss how it can be more culturally engaging, joyful, and meaningful
Anyone who wants to learn more about culturally and historically responsive teaching. You do not need to have a background in math to join us!

This workshop will be an experience where we learn, make, and connect together. Come as you are!
Pre-session work: We will be connecting our reflections in this workshop to Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy by Dr. Gholdy Muhammad. You don’t need to read the whole book to attend! Here’s a little pre-work to help jumpstart the important thinking we’ll be doing. There’s an article OR a podcast for you to listen to (you don’t need to do both!) Engage with the pre-work in whatever way feels right for you and your learning.

[Article] 12 Questions to Ask When Designing Culturally and Historically Responsive Curriculum by Gholdy Muhammad
[Podcast] Anti-racism Resources for Your Home and Classroom with Gholdy Muhammad

Note: Interested in diving more deeply into this framework? Join our Cultivating Genius Book Club discussion on Friday, June 25 connect and engage with other educators! RSVP here: makeredbookclub.eventbrite.com

Exploring Identity through Literature
2021-06-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event
Join us for a hands-on workshop to explore textual lineages and their use as a tool to better understand the young learners in your life.

About this event

Do you remember the first time you saw yourself represented in a piece of writing? How did that representation make you feel? Happy, sad, seen, embarrassed, incomplete — or maybe something else? As educators, we each bring our own unique experiences and histories into classrooms and makerspaces — and so do our students.
Many things can shape our identities over time. Your identity isn’t just who you are, it’s also shaped by how others see you, who you want to be in the future, your hobbies and interests, your family history, and where you live and grow up.
In this workshop, we will explore the many layered meanings and origins of our identities, practice some self-reflection, and plan/prototype some different ways to get to know youth learners through textual lineages, and reading and writing.
Who is this workshop for?

Teachers/educators specializing in English Language Arts,
Educators working with English-language Learners,
Writing tutors,
Youth librarians,
Anyone who loves to read or is learning to love reading

Our approach: Our workshops aim to immerse educators in the experience of learners. No lecturing here — you can expect to be engaged in hands-on, minds-on activities and interactive discussions for the full duration of the workshop. We’ll support you as you reflect on your practice as an educator, learn and collaborate with other participants, and stretch your teaching in new directions.
Pre-session work: We will be connecting our reflections in this workshop to Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy by Dr. Gholdy Muhammad. You don’t need to read the book to attend! In addition to this 2 hr workshop, there will be 30 minutes of pre-session work which will be emailed to you after you sign up.
Interested in diving more deeply into this framework? Join our Cultivating Genius Book Club discussion on June 25 to discuss this book more. RSVP here makeredbookclub.eventbrite.com.

Cultivating Genius Book Club
2021-06-25 16:00 - 17:30 | Virtual Event
Let’s engage, discuss and connect together around the inherent brilliance in all youth as we read Cultivating Genius by Gholdy Muhammad!

About this event

Join us this month in reading Cultivating Genius by Gholdy Muhammad! We’ll discuss how this equity framework centers the pursuits of identity, intellect, skills, criticality, and the inherent brilliance in all youth. Connect with other educators to reimagine your own lessons and teaching practices to be more hands on and learner centered using this framework!
Discussion questions will be provided throughout the month of June via email and on our social media as we read through the book, so feel free to join in on the conversation in the weeks leading up to this book club meeting!

Twitter: @makeredorg
Instagram: @makeredorg
Facebook: @MakerEducationInitiative

This is a participatory space for educators to connect, learn, and grow with each other.
This meetup is free and open to ALL educators who work with young people in any capacity.
Note: Throughout the month of June, we’ll also be hosting events and workshops that connect to the book and framework. Check back on our event brite page http://maker-ed.eventbrite.com to learn more!

Making as Healing Workshop
2022-06-04 09:00 - 15:30 | Maker Ed’s Community Studio, 1808 5th Street, Berkeley, CA, 94710, United States
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare.” – Audre Lorde

Oakland educators, are you looking for ways to revive, restore, and reset as you move into summer? We invite you to join us for a day-long retreat exploring the healing possibilities of maker-centered learning.
As educators, we have faced some of the most difficult teaching circumstances in recent memory. We are helping young people move through a challenging and transformative time all while living through it ourselves. Many of us are finding that our old tools are no longer supporting this new environment.
Join Maker Ed and Agency by Design Oakland in this day-long workshop where we will create a space for educators to come together, practice individual and collective healing practices through making, and center community, care, and connection. We will explore how maker-centered learning can be a tool for healing in our learning spaces, to create a culture of care for our learners, and to cultivate the conditions for empathy, vulnerability, joy, and rest.
“We don’t heal in isolation, but in community.” – S. Kelley Harrell

Join us!
Date: Saturday, June 4, 2022
Time: 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
Cost: Free!
Food: Breakfast, snacks, and lunch will be provided
Location: Maker Ed Community Studio, 1808 5th St, Berkeley CA 94710
Due to limited space and COVID-19 protocol,* we have a maximum capacity of 45 people for this event. We ask that all attendees only register if they are sure they can attend. Oakland educators have priority for this event & if space becomes available, others are welcome as well.
*A note about our COVID-19 protocols: For all events, our basic policy is that masks should be worn inside and we require proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test. Masks can be removed when outside and eating. Please do not attend if you are symptomatic. The intention of this policy is that it is designed to ensure that folks in our community who are the most vulnerable (immunocompromised, young children, folks who are caretakers of elderly, etc.) can participate safely.
Register now by May 27th!
