Your Maker Space is a Community Space

Our goal is to empower educators to foster creativity, innovation, and problem-solving skills among their students through hands-on making and learning experiences.

Here at TeachShop we know that a rich community space will foster a sense of trust, connection and sustainability. A maker space should be a cooperative and liberatory space.

Our Offerings

We work with educators from various educational settings, such as K-12 schools, community organizations and colleges, to help them integrate liberatory maker-centered learning and arts integration into their teaching practices and Maker Spaces.

Our goal is to empower educators to foster creativity, innovation, and problem-solving skills among their students through hands-on making and learning experiences.  

TeachShop offers a range of services, including:

  • Professional Development Workshops

  • Online Courses

  • Learning Communities

  • Event Support

About Us

Tamekia

Hello, I am an educator and theater artist who enjoys creating connection. I hold a BA in Theatre and an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies from New York University, where I focused on storytelling, education, and film.

As a teaching artist, I love  to foster community in the classroom and use embodied approaches to create an engaging learning environment.

I enjoy connecting with students to support them in their academic and socio-emotional growth. I am passionate about helping educators integrate the arts into their teaching practices and make education a more inclusive and joy-filled experience for all learners.

In addition to this work, I love to travel and cook. 

Ariel

Hi! I’m a community-centered Educator focused on building ecosystems of community sustainability. 

I facilitate and develop curricula to support youth in the exploration of their identities, build creative practices and counter harmful self narratives – primarily through STEAM-based learning experiences.

I focus on fostering community in learning spaces through team oriented projects and multi-modal practices.

I’ve taught in K-12 and professional workshops using various forms of media. I’m a storyteller at heart and I always try to center stories and identity in my educational practice.

Our Offerings

  • Our professional development consists of single or multi session workshops tailored to fit your group’s goals using maker-centered learning, arts education, or liberatory pedagogy tools. These interactive sessions are very customizable and can be in person or virtual, fully synchronous or asynchronous work. 

  • Learning communities meet for a longer term (3 months - multi year) to create a deep understanding of a particular topic and integrate the work into their practice. We will create a framework for the learning community and facilitate about 40% of the sessions, with the other 60 % being community led or co-working time. tion text goes here

  • We work with organizations to add participant centered activities and focus to their event. 

    We can :

    • Design participant centered content

    • Increase community building 

    • Add fun and easeful practices

    • Facilitate workshops and community spaces

  • We have synchronous and asynchronous online courses.

    Our synchronous courses are an opportunity to learn with others and explore topics related to hands on engagement and building community in the classroom. 

    Our asynchronous courses are self paced learning modules to develop a particular practice or orientation to serve your students.