BISMARCK, N.D. (KXNET) — North Dakota State School Superintendent Kirsten Baesler announced Monday that Callie Navarathne, a librarian in West Fargo’s Heritage Middle School, has been awarded a teacher innovation grant to expand the library’s “makerspace” for student projects.
The grant totals $9,957 and will be used to acquire an assortment of creative supplies, from acrylic and watercolor paints to hardware, building kits, power tools, robots, and microphones that could be used to record podcasts.
The resources will be available to both students and teachers as they adapt to the district’s increased emphasis on personalized, competency-based learning, which encourages experimenting and innovation.
Navarathne said student work in the makerspace can be integrated into classroom instruction.
Students in a seventh-grade science class, for example,…
