NEIT+2017+-+Open+Space+5H

NEIT 2017 - Open Space 5H

FEBRUARY 13th - MARYMOUNT MAKING and LEARNING INSTITUTE http://making.marymountnyc.org/page

FEBRUARY 22nd - 4pm NYCIST k-6 @ Speyer Legacy School

Katie - Rye Country Day Currently building a STEAM/STEAM space.

Elaine - Trevor Day

Jeremy Sambuca ([|@jsambuca]) - Hewitt School Helped design Browning School's [|makerspace] Currently finishing up construction on Hewitt's new 4-12 makerspace (opening in February) Will be starting new k-3 space in summer 2017

Jack - Town School Currently innovation lab and morphing into bits of a Makerspace.

Christine - Speyer Legacy Inherited a 6-month Makerspace. Happy to offer visits

Nilesh - Saddle River Day School IDEA's lab. Has in place for 3 years. Also the tech operations room. Lot of activity. Currently running out of space and looking to expand.

Amy and Rita - Schechter Day School: Westchester They have the space, but where do the stuff go?! How to you best integrate

Shirah - Mary McDowell - How do you schedule the various technologies?

Chris - Allen Stevenson Currently have a robust maker program, but minus the space. Currently building a new makerspace and woodshop.

Maureen Reilly ([|@MaureenrReilly]) - Marymount Classroom teacher ---> to Maker Setup a program and space at Blue School and Marymount Similar issues ---> schedule, space, collaboration

Celeste - LREI

Judith - Friends Seminary Currently designing a larger space.

Ramaz school is currently working on a plan to develop a technology space as the proposed room may be needed as a stand alone classroom due to increased enrollment in the lower school

Need a visionary/steward - someone who is going to love and manage the space. Use areas in the school the can turned into inspiration walls or maker library. @Marymount - Curator's gallery - design thinking project.

Speyer Legacy -work in progress in organization. Currently Metroshelves.

Stager your larger projects to not overwhelm you and your space.

Open bins Green bins - open to all Yellow bins - need to ask teacher Red bins - students can't touch

Mobile carts ---

Find the right tables and stools

Playmaker School Makerspace http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2013/04/24/10679588/maker-space-lightroom-edit-2.jpg

Try to find an open format.

Schedule

Blue School - 100% integration model

Schools to Visit

__California__ Castilleja Sacred Heart Atherton Tinkering Studio @ Exploratorium Lighthouse Community School Katherine Burke School Playmaker School Archer School Synapse School Nueva School Bullis Charter School Hillbrook School Brightworks

__Oregon__ Opal School

__New Jersey__ Saddle River

__New York__ Marymount School Browning School Hewitt School Speyer Legacy Dwight School UNIS Blue School Riverdale Country School

Human Resources

Shift standard technology skils (how to use email, GDrive, digital citizenship) and weave it into all disciplines.

[|K-4 Pacing Calendar Template] (GSheet)

Some don’t recommend using a consultant-> do self study tour instead
 * Visit Opal school in Portland Oregon
 * Go to LA

Good consultant is great, but you can do the work on your own…

What are the priorities? Space:
 * You need a steward, visionary, creative person to give it a life
 * Provide inspiration for the community is paramount
 * Shelving of trash became resources for projects
 * Marymount: K-2, one HS and one MS (3 campuses)
 * HS IDEA LAB: Graduated from NYU ITP -> originally manager of printers and laser cutters -> developing a curriculum and vision
 * Curators gallery (kids learn about how to prototype a gallery from real museums)
 * Laser cutters
 * 3D printers
 * Butcher block/ epoxy tables work well
 * Mobile bin cart -> with RED, GREEN and YELLOW bins color-coded for what kids may and may not touch vs. may touch with an adult
 * LS supplies can have a cart for push-in
 * TABLES that can be taken apart -> screwed off Uline tube could screw off bottoms so tables could be used easily -> screwed on whiteboard on 2x4 tables to write on tabletops
 * Stacking stools
 * Suction cups hooks on window
 * Storage for works in progress is tough
 * o Projects scheduled according to what needs to be stored and saved
 * o Built cubbies out of found materials to hold particular things
 * o Cubby for each child built within space
 * o Where is the real estate (windows are great free marketing for the school)
 * o Ideal is half groups
 * o Space organization shifts according to current projects
 * o Stuff can physically move in the room and supplies become place for work in progress
 * o Doors open with pegboards on the back of the doors
 * o Little bits in bins in a rolling cart within the storage
 * o RED TAPE (teacher only) GREEN TAPE (you may touch it) YELLOW TAPE (use with training and supervision) AND BINS!!!
 * o Have some visionary conversations with administration and faculty
 * Metro Racks and BINS helped organize the room
 * o U-Line
 * Organizing materials and getting classroom to place where it is usable
 * Organized chaos is philosophy
 * Removed desktops -> not always working on computers
 * Don’t let the architect drive the conversation
 * Use walls well (siding and put hooks on it)
 * Playmaker school in LA and Gensler built if for free for them-> fabricated table with skinny metal sides with table below it
 * Gensler is considering building

Packer (making done in classroom) Blue School Marymount
 * Classroom was transformed into a village and wigwam and parents helped and build days and they created these full installations

Scheduling maker spaces
 * Packer: 5 day rotation -> at some schools teachers did big projects full integration model but not equitable because some teachers were open to big ideas and new tech
 * o K-5 STEAM specialist did cycles 6-8 week steam cycle for part of the year (ADDED on for that 8 weeks-> integrated into the social studies and science) ie: 3rd grade wall of china used “old tools” kids pounding dirt and making bricks and learn how to make a wall and making terra cotta warriors and making them come to life with Makey Makeys
 * o Studio time open to work on schedule (Urban park rangers and kids wanted to make pamphlets around the city to teach people about the parks and wanted to make pamphlet holders (teacher given safety lessons)
 * Cycle driven teachers don’t leave-> part of their PD is that they come to the maker space
 * Ideal if librarians can co-teach with STEAM teacher… they can develop relationship and curriculum together so that you figure out the kinds of projects that work coming out of the content that they want to work on together -> OR Work toward same goal with different times
 * Shop/ Art happens separately-> could the two work with the teachers for everyone to be working collaboratively
 * Photograph shop models and then projects can have pieces and occur in different ways in different subjects rooms
 * Early morning, recess, kids come in smaller groups

Staffing is very hard
 * Gym teacher and others can be trained and be present to help
 * It is a new department that is being added to the school
 * Buy what you need and do things awesome and do things well
 * Deep dive into look of your school
 * Teachers can teach Google Doc
 * Curriculum coordinator helped make the connections between different teachers with overlap
 * Grade Level Coordinator for each grade can help with this as well
 * Homeroom teaches typing
 * Digitial Citizenship passed on to others (English, History, and Librarians
 * Should be everywhere
 * Google accounts grade 2 in bubble-> cannot email out of our domain
 * No outside emailing until 9th grade
 * Librarian in addition to reading books (reader’s workshop and library both the same
 * Art/ Making/ Woodshed teachers curriculums/projects can all be combined in various useful ways with the right communication and sharing of project ideas