Title: Empowering Educators as Makers: Cultivating a Maker Mindset for Transformative Teaching. Question: How might we empower educators to adopt a maker mindset and foster transformative teaching practices that enable students to thrive as active learners and creators? Traditional education often emphasizes rote learning and standardized assessments, limiting students' opportunities for creative exploration and hands-on experiences. This approach can hinder the development of essential 21st-century skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration. Moreover, it can disengage students, making learning feel uninspiring and irrelevant. To address these challenges, we must empower educators to embrace a maker mindset, fostering meaningful learning environments that ignite students' curiosity and innovation. A maker mindset is characterized by a willingness to experiment, embrace challenges, and learn from mistakes. It encourages educators to view themselves as facilitators, guiding students on a journey of discovery rather than dictating knowledge. Design and implement a comprehensive professional development program that equips educators with the skills and knowledge to integrate maker pedagogy into their classrooms. The program should address the following key aspects: Cultivate a growth mindset among educators, encouraging them to view themselves as makers and lifelong learners. Provide educators with hands-on training in maker technologies and tools, enabling them to confidently incorporate maker activities into their lessons. Creating Maker-Centered Learning Environments: Guide educators in designing classrooms that foster collaboration, creativity, and risk-taking, essential elements of maker learning. Supporting Curriculum Integration: Assist educators in integrating maker projects into their existing curriculum, aligning maker activities with learning objectives and standards. By empowering educators as makers, we can transform classrooms into dynamic hubs of innovation, where students thrive as active participants in their own learning journeys. This shift will not only enhance student engagement and motivation but also cultivate essential 21st-century skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration.