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Building Equity: K-12 Education in Museums

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The introduction slide for Building Equity: K-12 Education in Museums includes various images of students in a museum learning setting.

Watch this engaging conversation between Keahe Davis, Ah-Young Kim, Kelly Williams, and Tara Young as they discuss the state of museums and K-12 education. They talk about where we are and where we are going toward making museum and K-12 education more equitable for everyone involved from the student to the educator.

Some of the key discussion points in this video: 

  • A brief glimpse at the state of K-12 education today
  • Digital engagement and the pivot during COVID-19
  • Educating with an eye toward the whole child
  • Thinking about the whole educator and toward pay equity
  • The future of museum education

Resources

Creating Meaningful Museum Experiences for K–12 Audiences How to Connect with Teachers and Engage Students 

This book, edited by Tara Young, examines best practices in working with crucial K-12 audiences. More than 40 contributors from art, history, science, natural history, and specialty museums across the country, ask probing questions about museum-school relationships, suggest new paradigms, and offer creative approaches to connecting with teachers and engaging students.

Google Arts & Culture

Google Arts & Culture is a non-commercial initiative working with cultural institutions and artists around the world to preserve and bring the world’s art and culture online so it is accessible to everyone. The Google team helps partner organizations digitize, manage, and publish their collections online.

Pods in Action: Neighborhood North

Neighborhood North is a play-oriented community museum in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. In the early days of the pandemic, the museum saw a need for learning pods to help support students’ academic learning and social and emotional development. The Neighborhood North learning pod was open from the spring of 2020 through the spring of 2021 and served children in grades K–5.

Museums Can Help Transform Education 

In this guest post from the Center for the Future of Museums blog, Katherine Prince of KnowledgeWorks outlines the future of learning and explores the roles museums might play in a more free-form education system.

Museums for Digital Learning

A unique online learning platform that provides curated museum collection resources to K-12 educators. All content is free to use and share.

Museum Education for Today’s Audiences 

This book, edited by Jason L. Porter and Mary Kay Cunningham, shares lessons on how today’s museum educators can adapt and thrive in a dynamic and ever-changing cultural sector. Additional resources include discussion prompts and customizable templates.

Storytelling in Museums

Edited by Adina Langer, Storytelling in Museums explores how museums can and do use personal, local, and specific stories to make visitors feel welcome, and explores the responsibilities of museum practitioners toward the storytellers included in their narratives.

TrendsWatch: Museums as Community Infrastructure

This edition of the Alliance’s annual forecasting report makes the case that museums are vital public infrastructure, by virtue of their contributions to five pillars of community strength and resilience including education for our children, livable communities for our elders, mental health, emergency response in the face of disasters, and a human-centered culture of sustainability.

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