Too often STEM efforts, including makerspaces, can be intimidating for students and teachers not proficient with math, technology, and coding. OWL works with educators to break down these barriers by helping them design inviting spaces where creativity, tinkering, and failure are essential components that are integrated into all curricular areas and all students. Examples include...

>Co-designing world-class g in a North Carolina district, then helping create a "Maker Culture" by providing workshops and coaching to teachers in those schools to champion the integration of these spaces into everyday curriculum.

>Holding routine maker culture workshops in partnership with the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching where teachers learn to use a variety of technologies in exciting ways that increase engagement in their classrooms.

>Helping a New Mexico district use summer STEAM experiences as a way to make classroom instruction more relevant and engaging for all students.

>Sharing Thinking Classroom and Competency-Based assessment practices with a school in Hawaii to transform their approach to math.