More Stories of Maker Empowerment
Agency by Design Oakland is a community of educators from over 15 different local schools and institutions that has worked together to think about documentation and assessment strategies within Maker-Centered Learning. In May 2017 we celebrated a year of research, practice, and community at our Culmination Event. Visit abdoakland.org to learn more.
Culmination Event 2017
An Ignite Talk by 2017-2018 Agency by Design Oakland Teacher Fellow Cicely Day. For more information, please visit www.abdoakland.org.
IGNITE TALK: CICELY DAY
Agency by Design Oakland fellow Robbie Torney's Ignite Talk, presented at the May 2017 Agency by Design Oakland Culmination Event celebrating a year of research into documentation and assessment of maker-centered learning. Robbie Torney is Assistant Principal at Lodestar, a Lighthouse Community Public School in Oakland. For more information please visit abdoakland.org.
Alliance Academy of Integrated Learning is a public school in Oakland. Educators A'aron Heard and Alia Ghabra describe their work using Agency by Design thinking routines and resources, and students describe their experience in the classroom.
IGNITE TALK: ROBBIE TORNEY
WONDER & MAKING AT ALLIANCE
Hands-On Empowerment at Oakland International High School
Tinkering and Making class students and Facilitator Ngà Nguyêñ describes their work using Agency by Design routines and resources in his classroom at Wood Middle School in Alameda, California. For more information on this work and maker-centered learning in the classroom, please visit abdoakland.org.
EMPOWERMENT AT OAKLAND INTERNATIONAL
ASSESSMENT AT WOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL
The Lighthouse Creativity Lab works with teachers to give students more opportunities to make and tinker. The Creativity Lab hosts an annual school maker faire where students in elementary, middle, and high school present projects that they have worked on over the course of the school year.
CREATIVITY AT LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
Grass Valley Elementary School is a school within the Oakland Unified Public School District. Over the course of the 2016-2017 school year, Agency by Design Oakland partnered with teachers at the school to develop maker-centered learning in the school. For more information visit www.abdoakland.org
MAKING AT GRASS VALLEY ELEMENTARY
Grass Valley Elementary School is a school within the Oakland Unified Public School District. Over the course of the 2016-2017 school year, Agency by Design Oakland partnered with teachers at the school to develop maker-centered learning in the school. Here Grass Valley Elementary School teachers and principal describe the process of implementing maker-centered learning practices in the overall school curriculum.
Classrooms at Grass Valley Elementary school in Oakland came together to share and celebrate their learning, with each other and the rest of the school, through three EXPOS over the course of the 2016-2017 school year. For more information on this work and maker-centered learning in the classroom please visit abdoakland.org.