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Upcoming Workshops for Managers of Front-line Staff
More often than not, while in conversations with fellow managers of front-line staff, I have found the conversations include moments of venting about
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Tour Scheduling – Help is on the Way!
Scheduling tours can be a time consuming endeavor that many of us with small museum education staff have little time to dedicate. So when this blog
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Education Standards: Complex Physics Algorithm or High School Student Research Skill Blueprints?
You probably recognize the state mandated standard curriculum format: 1SSC1PO1. This algorithm provides directives for research skill development
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Approaching Evaluation
If I have learned anything as a museum educator, it’s that those of us who didn’t come into the field through teaching have a lot to learn.
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Outreach Profile: National History Day
As schools grapple with limited field trip budgets, museums are looking for new ways to engage with K-12 audiences. “Outreach” is the new
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Approaching Docent Training
This summer we are completely overhauling our brick-and-mortar historical museum. When we reopen after Thanksgiving we will have three new and
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The Dreaded Guided Tour. . .
When I arrived at the Detroit Historical Society in October 2010, I learned that the only school program offered was a 90-minute tour of the Detroit
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Reaching the Underserved: Adopt-a-Class
I know I don’t need to launch into a long explanation about hard times and the decline of the school field trip. Those of us working in museum
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