To Engage Students and Teachers, Treat Core Subjects Like Extracurriculars Lighthouse Community Public Schools were featured in an article in Mind/Shift by Leah Shaffer. Read more.
3 Challenges As Hands-On, DIY Culture Moves Into Schools The Lighthouse Creativity Lab was featured on a piece by Eric Westervelt on NPR. Read more
Freedom To Explore: 2 Schools Where The Students Call The Shots The Lighthouse Creativity Lab was featured on a piece by Eric Westervelt. Read more and listen.
Finding Success in Failure: STEM Educators Say Student Risk-Taking Is Key to Real-World Learning The Lighthouse Creativity Lab was part of a feature in an article on STEM The 74 by Kate Stringer. Read more.
We recently used google street view to take this photo 360° photo of our K-8 Creativity Lab space and then added it to our location on google maps. The great part of this is that others are doing the same and then tweeting their photos to @360makerspaces where we can learn from each other.…
Lighthouse Creativity Lab is hiring two Americorps VISTAs. Please forward to those who you think would be interested. Hiring is happening extremely quickly, if you are interested apply early this week!
The goal of maker education is not college and career preparation. The goals are deeper learning and authentic engagement, with an emphasis on turning learning over to the learner. However, making is the best college and career preparation that I have encountered, in part because it isn’t the core goal. Through making, students build their…
Do you want to be part of a growing movement to improve the educational experience of low-income youth in Oakland through experiential, hands-on learning? The Lighthouse Creativity Lab has been integrating design and making into our school’s practice over the past four years giving students the opportunity to think through and create their own visions…
For just under the past year, our Maker Ed VISTA volunteers have made a huge contribution to the Creativity Lab program. They made it possible for us to share our practices with interested educators, expand out outreach, and make our in school making program what it is today! And now, we are looking for a…
Lighthouse high school students met up at the Lawrence Hall of Science this morning to show off their projects to the public in preparation for the Maker Faire next weekend. Just like most other makers, our students are currently scrambling to put the finishing touches on their projects. …