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by Katy Tessman, New School Services Project Manager and Maker Specialist at Mackin These are the dog days of summer and it’s becoming more [...]

Create a Culture of Literacy. A culture of literacy is one where the entire school, and even better, the entire district, plays a part. From food [...]

Educators should research different design thinking strategies and find one that fits their school’s goals for makerspaces. Creating makerspaces [...]

Who would have thought that a fourth-grade boy who traced comic strips from the newspaper would one day create wildly popular graphic novels [...]

I submitted a video proposal to TED. I’ve done this before, but my quest ended there. This year, I had the extraordinary experience of [...]

Recently, my dad asked me “Katy, where were you when the U.S. landed on the moon?” I laughed out loud, reminding him I wasn’t born … yet. I was [...]

As May draws to a close, we are wrapping up National Foster Care Month! There are over 442,000 children in the foster care system in America1. [...]

“Remembering the mistakes of the past will hopefully create a more enlightened, tolerant, and peaceful future.” —Author’s Note, The Night [...]

by Katy Tessman, New School Services Project Manager and Makerspace Specialist at Mackin Classrooms are filled with a variety of learners and [...]

Making learning more real for students allows them to learn better and changes the school culture. In a recent edWebinar, hosted by edWeb.net, [...]