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Hi, I’m Diana! Welcome to Renovated Learning.

Maybe you’re curious about this makerspace thing. Or maybe you’re looking to redesign your learning space to work better for our modern students. Or maybe you’re an educator (or someone who cares about education) who’s tired of the status quo and wants to see schools transformed with creativity.

I’m here to help.

I transformed my school library and started a makerspace from scratch and I want to empower other educators and librarians to do the same.

Here at Renovated Learning, I share my experiences in starting and running and makerspace and redesigning our learning space.

Whether you need help starting a makerspace or growing a makerspace you already have, there will be something here for you. Let’s work together to make learning awesome again 🙂

Click on over the blog to start reading, or check out some of the resources below and in the menu bar.

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Recent posts:

5 new back-to-school hacks to help you get ready for a new year in your library. Orientations, surveys and more.

5 New Back-to-School Hacks for 2023

My Back-to-School Hacks post from 2015 has been getting a lot of traffic lately (maybe because of the School Library Journal article with a similar title?) so I thought it might be good to write an updated version. A lot has changed for me since 2015 – I’m at a different school (Tampa Prep, where … Read more

Learn about how we created an Earthquake Structure Design challenge to bring our makerspace into our 6th grade science curriculum.

Science + Makerspace: Earthquake Structure Design Challenge

In the spring of 2021, the 6th grade science teacher and I began forming a plan. She had seen the engagement of 6th graders in our afterschool Maker Days program and wanted to find a way to bring that into her classroom so that ALL of our 6th graders could have this opportunity. We applied … Read more