What Might It Take to Make Thinking a Crucial and Visible Aspect of Our Maker-Centered Classroom?

Thinking and Learning in a Maker-Centered Classroom online course co-instructor Julie Rains describes her self-imposed creativity cha ...

Taking Apart to Build Stories of Change

This piece is based on a workshop titled “Taking Apart Racism: Using Maker-Centered Practices to Break Down Systems of Oppression,” led by Jaime Chao Mignano and Mark Perkins at t ...

Agency by Design Oakland: 2018-2019 Fellowship Update: The Intersection of Making, Repair, and Teacher Inquiry

Agency by Design Oakland Senior Leader Ilya Pratt provides an update on the Agency by Design Oakland Fellowship program, with an emphasis on the social justice and healing power o ...

Agency by Design in Translation: Exploring the Complexities of Sharing Maker-Centered Practices Across Cultures

Educators Rita Camargo, Simone Lederman, and Paola Ricci of Instituto Catalisador in São Paulo, Brazil describe their journey towards translating the Agency by Design thinking routines into Po ...

Making Across the Curriculum Takes Off in DC

Educators Jim Reese, Carole Geneix, and Jaime Chao Mignano describe how the Agency by ...

Cultivating Relationships with Makers Within Our Communities

Members of the Agency by Design: Early Childhood in the Making team visited the Boston Mini Maker Faire at the Boston Children's Museum to learn more about the work of maker ...

Just “Hacking Around”: Bringing New Meaning to a Storied Word

In this blog post, Agency by Design online course instructor Jane Jessep explores the storied meaning of the word “hack” by reflecting on her own experiences “hacking around” in the 196 ...

Introducing the 2016-2017 Agency by Design Oakland Fellowship

Brooke Toczylowski, Lead Coordinator and Coach for the Agency by Design Oakland Fellows, provides an overview of the educators who will be partnering with the Agency by Design project as they w ...

Building a Maker Educator Learning Community in Pittsburgh

Guest Author Jeff Evancho, the Project Zero Programming Specialist at the Quaker Valley School District, describes the process of establishing the Pittsburgh Maker Educator Learning Community, ...

When a Ship is not a Ship—It’s a Sabre-toothed Cat! A Story of Maker Empowerment and Collective Agency

Ilya Pratt, AbD Oakland Leadership Team member and Design+Make+Engage program director at Park Day School, tells a tale of maker empowerment and collective agency through the story of Kyle and ...