What's happening in Maker Education 2025-2026

The 2025-2026 school year has either wrapped up or is about to wrap up for educators. Before you head out for the summer, would you take a few minutes to share your thoughts and experiences as a maker educator over the past school year? I’d like to hear from you and learn how the year went for you.

The biggest reason I support maker education is that I see how it benefits kids. Given access to tools and expertise, and the time to make something based on their own ideas and interests, student can build confidence in their own capabilities and see themselves as a good learner. That’s really valuable, especially when we have educators telling their story.

Integrating maker education into schools can be difficult but many of you have figured out how to do it. And you do it not because it is required of you but because you also see its benefits for kids, and especially for kids who struggle in school. Thank you for what you do.

Please accept this invitation to share in your own words what worked and what didn’t in or out of school and working with kids in a makerspace. Use the comments section below so others can read your comments.

I hope you have time to enjoy the summer and you get to make something that you really enjoy.