Pop-Up and Make: Engaging Smart-Block Students at J. H. Rose High School in Makerspace Pedagogies

Building on existing relationships and the existing infrastructure, we will recruit and work with a group of 10 JHR teachers from across the curriculum to plan, develop, create, and facilitate pop-up maker spaces that operate during the school's 80-minute Smart Block period. Participating faculty will engage in teacher-centered professional development that explores ?making? as a pedagogy, considers successful case studies from the Ed Innovator network, and makes powerful connections between making and disciplinary literacy. Faculty will then develop plans for pop-up maker spaces that speak to their own interests and those of the JHR student population. Faculty will identify and recruit a diversity of student leaders, as well as community partners, to serve as maker-space mentors, building stronger student commitment and ownership along with community engagement. Faculty, student, and community leaders will then facilitate these pop-up maker spaces during the 2015-2016 academic year to engage students outside of the curriculum in transformative learning experiences.

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