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If we could do a bit of time traveling and end up right next to the chair I’m sitting on, in a classroom, in, let’s say, November 1974 (I’m ten [...]

It only takes a quick glance at Kate Messner’s website to grasp that she’s a prolific, award-winning writer with a wide array of books to her [...]

As student populations become more diverse, classmates are very likely to have friends in different racial and ethnic groups. The year 2020 was [...]

Comics are kind of like that one “weird” kid in school no one knows how to be friends with. As a medium, it’s studded with unfortunate [...]

The history of comic books can be traced back to the African continent and ancient Egyptian civilization. The Egyptians created hieroglyphs as a [...]

Christian Robinson received a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor for his art in Last Stop on Market Street (by Matt de la [...]

K-pop is no longer limited to Korea; its raging popularity has swept across the entire world. In this guest post on the Mackin Community blog, [...]

There are many obvious connections between STEM and making, but as Dr. John Spencer writes in one of his blog posts, “Too often, we associate [...]

by Katy Tessman, New School Services Project Manager & Makerspace Specialist Most movies for youth are adaptations of children’s books and [...]

Varian Johnson’s middle-grade novel, The Parker Inheritance, was awarded a 2019 Coretta Scott King Honor as well as received numerous other [...]