STEAM Learning Lab and Makerspace

The STEAM Learning Lab explores new opportunities for hands-on, inquiry-based learning through maker practices in diverse educational contexts. Through this work, we seek to provide the field with informed research-to-practice examples that demonstrate the extraordinary power of maker-based pedagogies to foster student-driven engagement and deep learning.

Working with Lesley students and educators in the field, both in K-12 and in out-of-school programming, we collaborate to foster inclusive, culturally responsive, and culturally relevant STEAM activities (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) that lead to greater student learning, and are further reinforced by the development of self-awareness and identity affirmation, perseverance, problem-solving, collaboration, communication, and other skills needed to be fully engaged citizens in the 21st Century.