2022 Workshops & Events
Making Genius, Centering Joy
A Guide to Maker-centered Pedagogy Rooted in Identity, Equity, Justice and Liberation
In this six week virtual course, we will explore how maker-centered learning can be a tool to disrupt traditional models of teaching and learning. Through a focus on making that prioritizes process and connection, we can create a cultural shift in education that centers rehumanizing, anti-racist, and culturally relevant practices.
We’ll blend together making exercises, reflection time, collaboration, and peer feedback in order for you to design specially tailored activities, projects, and lesson plans that are best suited for your unique learning space.
Location(s): Online course
Cost: $250 – $1300
Dates: June 18th – July 23rd
Making Spaces Info Sessions
Learn about our Making Spaces community through these virtual events
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- Instagram Live Info Session with Carol Tang. Watch the recording here
- Our “Sip and See” Event, hosted on Zoom, June 28th 2-4 pm PT. Register here
About Maker Ed Workshops
Maker Ed offers a series of hands-on, minds-on workshops which immerse educators in an exploration of the ways making can enhance learning in diverse educational environments. While toggling between educator perspectives and learner experiences, workshop participants reflect, make direct connections to their own approaches, extend their practice in new directions, and collaborate with and learn from each other. Learn more about our approach to professional development here.
Workshop participants are eligible to receive 1-3 graduate-level units (generally applicable as continuing education units, or CEU’s) through the University of the Pacific for completion of any Maker Ed workshop. Please visit this website for submission/completion guidelines and associated fee information.
Maker Ed offers workshops on a sliding-scale fee basis. Fees are per attendee. Please select and register for the amount you can pay. If all of the pay options are cost prohibitive, please contact us by email at: info@makered.org
We provide breakfast, lunch, and all the coffee you’ll need at our in person events. For online events, it’s bring your own. 😉
Past Workshops
Making as Healing
An in-person retreat for Oakland educators to revive, restore, and reset
Maker Ed and Agency by Design Oakland held this day-long workshop where we created a space for educators to come together to practice individual and collective healing processes through making, and center community, care, and connection.
We explored 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. Learn More.
Date & Time: June 4, 2020, 9:00-3:30 pm
Location: Maker Ed Community Studio
Online Workshops
Approaches to Maker Education
Join us for this four day hands-on, minds-on workshop where you will step into your learners’ shoes and explore Maker Ed’s foundational approaches to weaving maker-centered learning into your practice. You’ll plan an activity for your learners in your setting while centering your work in liberatory and culturally responsive practices. You’ll collaborate and connect with other maker educators.
Our work centers using maker education as a tool for equity and liberation. We will engage together in participatory and interactive experiences in order to:
- experience how making centers learner agency
- design more inclusive and equitable learning experiences
- shift our practices to be more culturally relevant
By the end of our time together, you will have created a maker-centered project tailored to your learning environment!
In-Person Workshops
All workshops take place from 8:30 am – 4:30 pm. While our workshops are best approached in the order they are presented below, they can be taken in any order.
COVID-19 Policy Update as of June 15th, 2020: In light of the global pandemic and spread of COVID-19, we are monitoring local public health recommendations about group gatherings and assessing the situation regularly. We are not currently planning in person, public events for 2020. For more information, please refer to our Cancellation Policy.
Approaches to Maker Education
Join us for three days of intensive, hands-on, minds-on learning that culminates in the creation of a maker-centered project tailored to your learning environment. Step into your learners’ shoes and explore foundational approaches to weaving making into your practice: tinkering to discover, making to learn, and the application project. This workshop is perfect for those who are just getting started or are looking to further develop their practice in schools, libraries, museums, makerspaces, and other educational settings.
Location(s): Maker Ed’s Community Studio – 1808 5th St., Berkeley, CA 94710
Food: Breakfast and lunch provided daily
Fee: $200 – $800
Dates: No current scheduled dates. Check back later for updates!
Documenting for Assessment
How does documentation support assessment? In this two-day, hands-on workshop, we will practice different ways to make learning visible and, in capturing our work, our process, and our thinking, we will broaden our notion of what is assessable.
Location(s): Maker Ed’s Community Studio – 1808 5th St., Berkeley, CA 94710
Food: Breakfast and lunch provided daily
Fee: $150 – $400
Dates: No current scheduled dates. Check back later for updates!
Designing Learning Progressions
How do I plan for learning beyond a stand-alone making activity or project? In this two-day workshop, we will explore how to plan for and tie together many activities into a maker-centered learning progression. By experiencing first hand how one activity can build off of and into another, and mapping out milestones to assess learning in advance, we will begin to plan our own units or progressions of learning tailored to your own setting.
Location(s): Maker Ed’s Community Studio – 1808 5th St., Berkeley, CA 94710
Food: Breakfast and lunch provided daily
Fee: $150 – $400
Dates: No current scheduled dates. Check back later for updates!
Program Design
How do I design and deliver sustainable and equitable programs which reflect my values around making and learning? In this 2-day, interactive, minds-on workshop, you will adopt a wide-angle lens on your existing or ideal program for hands-on, learner-driven education (whether maker education, project-based learning, or something else). After making what you value in learning visible to yourself and others, you will create a systems map of your program’s key components, map out strategies to leverage important stakeholders, and plot next steps toward programming sustainably and equitably.
Location(s): Maker Ed’s Community Studio – 1808 5th St., Berkeley, CA 94710
Food: Breakfast and lunch provided daily
Fee: $150 – $400
Dates: No current scheduled dates. Check back later for updates!