P.H. Miller Elementary School, a diverse Pre-K through 1st grade school in Plano, IL, is making big changes. The school’s principal, Laurel Mateyka, has engaged the teachers in reflective practice. They are looking at how...

mak·er·space a place in which people with shared interests can gather to work on projects while sharing ideas, equipment, and knowledge. Spaces for making, tinkering, and exploring passions and interests are nothing new to an...

A Maker Story: The Giant Squid To kick off National Maker Week, we wanted to share a story about a maker moment that happened right here at Kodo headquarters. Often young children jump right into...

How can we honor children’s works in the construction area? Our last blog focused on how we can create storage solutions that promote autonomy and communicate value around the process for children’s work. This week,...

How can we use classroom storage systems to honor children’s works in progress Summer is a great time to re-evaluate storage in the classroom, especially when it comes to providing children options for storing items...

Happy National STEM Day!  You may know that here at Kodo we have a particular fondness for all things STEM and in particular, Engineering. Our own team of designers and engineers are enthusiastic problem solvers,...

Fall In Love With Fall  Some of my earliest and greatest memories are of walking with my grandmother on a crisp fall day; we would collect leaves, talk, and laugh. I would ask 1000 “why”...

While it may feel like Summer has just begun, many teachers are already shifting their focus to next school year’s classroom. Over the coming weeks, you’ll be cleaning, sorting, organizing, choosing new materials and furniture,...

2015 was an exciting year for us at Kodo - our team grew, our space expanded, and new products were being added all the time! None of it would have been possible without you, and...