Schools around the country are designing maker spaces to spark creativity. Students learn best when they are able to create and tinker and make. But how do you even begin when there are so many terms floating around? This book provides a fun, practical, and approachable framework for any teacher curious about getting started with maker spaces. I've never had so much fun reading a professional book, ever. Somehow each chapter is equal parts hilarious, gleeful, inspiring and practical. I would recommend to this every educator I know and even parents and students. This is a book you can come back to again and again to laugh learn and make each time in a new way. - Jennie Magiera, Educator and Author of Courageous Edventures Your Starter Guide To Makerspaces makes any Hufflepuff feel like they can tackle the maker movement with the brains of a Ravenclaw, confidence of a Gryffindor, and cleverness of a Slytherin. Emily Gover - Edtech Nerd &amp; Librarian

Your Starter Guide to Makerspaces (The Nerdy Teacher Presents)

Education & Teaching

Provenzano, Nicholas

Schools & Teaching

Blend Education

Definition of Epic: 1. A story or narrative centered around a hero 2. Spectacular; impressive; memorable. If learning is not memorable, should it even be considered learning? For too long, traditional education has used outdated practices to deliver complex and well-intended content to students with very little hope of that subject matter being retained. It often looks like this: Lectures are given ---&gt;Students write the information down ---&gt; Students take a test on that information ---&gt; Information is discarded from the brain ---&gt; Repeat. In the The Epic Classroom, Trevor Muir presents a project based learning method that uses the power of storytelling and brain science to give educators practical and proven practices to achieve real student engagement. In return, learning that is permanent and memorable. Any teacher, in any subject area, and in any grade level can use the story-centered project based learning framework of The Epic Classroom to transform their classrooms into settings where students are engaged, challenged, and transformed. In this book you will discover - How to increase student engagement - How to plan and execute effective high quality project based learning experiences- Specific strategies for leading engaged students - Outlines and tools to plan, manage, and assess projects - Methods to increase academic performance in students.

The Epic Classroom: How to Boost Engagement, Make Learning Memorable, and Transform Lives

Muir, Trevor

Are you ready to create a space that empowers student learning?The spaces where your students come to learn can free them to think creatively and empower them to collaborate and share their work with others. Or those learning spaces can stifle creativity and stall progress. How you design the space makes all the difference.In THE SPACE, Robert Dillon and Rebecca Hare will inspire you to rethink the way you set up your learning spaces. The imagery and powerful insights they offer will equip you to create an environment that brings out the best in your students.* Learn how to think like a designer.* Explore ways to improve your space even if you’re on a tight budget.* Find out which questions you should be asking before you design your space.* Discover why designing better learning spaces doesn’t have to be complicated or difficult.Your students deserve classrooms that support their learning experience.You can design that space.

The Space: A Guide for Educators

Hare, Rebecca Louise

Dillon, Dr. Robert

Inspiring and exploring creativity opens pathways for students to use creative expression to demonstrate content knowledge, critical thinking, and the problem solving that will serve them best no matter what their futures may bring. Intention offers a collection of ideas, activities, and reasons for bringing creativity to every lesson."'Rigorous whimsy.' I'm in."-Clive Thompson, author of Smarter Than You Think "Bravo to Burvall and Ryder for showing us how to bring out more creativity in the classroom. All teachers, parents, and students will find something to steal here." -Austin Kleon, New York Times best-selling author of Steal Like An Artist "What I would have given to have educators like Amy and Dan in my early years ? doodling, remixing, iterating, discovering, playing to learn with all your might. The world needs thinkers like these two and the world also needs this book."-Sunni Brown, best-selling author of Gamestorming and The Doodle Revolution "Intention is a work of art and genius. Burvall and Ryder explore the rich tapestry of ways in which academia can embrace curiosity and creativity, provide tools with which to dissect it for values, and take that further with actionable exercises that empower the reader to put these ideas into practice. A beautifully executed exploration of creativity in learning."-Adam Bellow, co-founder of Breakout EDU "Don't just read this brilliant book of recipes for classroom creativity. Make it your intention to digest, deliberate, and doodle all over it. (I did!)"-Bryan Mathers, founder of VisualThinkery

Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom

Burvall, Amy

Ryder, Dan

The poster board is one of the staples of many classrooms that have students create projects. However, there is so much more to project-based learning than a simple piece of poster board. Project-based learning comes in many different shapes and sizes that can be used to truly allow students an opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of curriculum in a way that a standardized test never could. This book is filled with example lessons given to students and exemplars that show what is possible if students are given a voice and a choice. If you are an English Language Arts teacher and are looking to explore different types of assessment, take some time and investigate Beyond the Poster Board.

Beyond the Poster Board: Project-Based Learning in the English Language Arts Classroom

Vintage Innovation redefines innovation not as "new and flashy" but as "better and different." It isn't a rejection of new approaches or cutting-edge technology so much as an embrace of the old and the new.It's the overlap of the "tried and true" and the "never tried." It's a mash-up of lo-fi tech and new tech. It's the idea of finding relevance by looking back and looking forward. It's a focus on timeless skills in new contexts. It's the idea that innovation happens when teachers take a both/and approach as they empower their students in the present to prepare them for an uncertain future.If you are a teacher, you are an innovator. You are the experimenter trying new strategies. You are the architect designing new learning opportunities. Apps change. Gadgets break. Technology grows obsolete. But one thing remains: teachers change the world. And one way to do this is through a vintage innovation approach. With vintage innovation, teachers ask: How do I innovate when I don't have the best technology? How can I use vintage tools, ideas, and approaches in new ways? How can I use constraints to spark creativity? How do I blend together the "tried and true" with the "never tried?"

Vintage Innovation: Leveraging Retro Tools and Classic Ideas to Design Deeper Learning Experiences

Spencer, John

The Space: A Guide for Leaders will inspire leaders to infuse the elements of intentional design in their schools. It is crafted as a guidebook to enhance teaching and learning by providing practical tips and ideas that shape culture and modernize instruction. It unpacks the science and research surrounding intentional school design and makes it accessible for all providing ideas and solutions that can be used right away. Building on The Space: A Guide for Educators, this playbook for leaders considers how healthy spaces designed with intention can support whole child growth and development.

The Space: A Guide for Leaders

Student engagement can be a real challenge in virtual and hybrid learning. This is especially true when the transition is unexpected. Often, students struggle to show up to class meetings and they turn work in late. However, the real issue isn't simply a lack of engagement. It's often a lack of self-direction. In other words, students aren't taking the initiative with their own learning. In Empowered at a Distance, Dr. John Spencer provides teachers, coaches, and administrators with a roadmap that will inspire anytime / anywhere innovation at the K-12 and university levels. He provides practical strategies for building student ownership into the assessment process, creative process, collaborative process, and inquiry process. He includes practical insights for improving virtual meetings and overall course design. There's no single right way to do distance learning. There are no magical formulas. However, although there is no instruction manual, we can all use tools, blueprints, and ideas to craft meaningful learning experiences that happen anytime and anywhere.

Empowered at a Distance: How to Build Student Self-Direction into Remote and Hybrid Learning

Spencer, Dr. John

In a post-Covid landscape, teachers need tools to integrate Social and Emotional Learning into the daily fabric of their classrooms without losing time for academic content. If you don't plan to teach SEL skills upfront, you will lose academic time as students struggle throughout the year. Explicitly teaching Transformative SEL competencies is an unparalleled opportunity to create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment for ALL learners. PBL generates organic situations to intentionally foster the SEL competencies daily. The Pulse of PBL offers tried and true strategies on how each of the five SEL competencies can be seamlessly taught, practiced, and assessed inside the PBL framework. Each chapter of The Pulse of PBL will demonstrate, competency by competency, how SEL can be naturally embedded into PBL. Specific examples, protocols, and stories from both elementary and secondary classrooms around the U.S. illustrate how PBL and SEL are a powerful combination. Transformative SEL changes the way students see themselves as learners, becoming active participants in their communities and the world!\nHow do I leverage student social and cultural identities to develop their Self-Awareness? 
How do I build students' ability to Self-Manage their time, task, and teams? 
How do I create student experiences that heighten empathy to sharpen their Social Awareness? 
How do I strengthen students' capacity for collaboration and communication to forge productive Relationship Skills? 
How do I present authentic opportunities for Responsible Decision-Making in projects to affect their communities and their lives? 
How do I assess the SEL competencies to ensure ALL students apply their skills in meaningful learning?

Pulse of PBL: Cultivating Equity Through Social Emotional Learning

Kaechele, Mike

Ragatz Ph.D, Matinga

The A.I. Roadmap: Human Learning in the Age of Smart Machines

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