It’s Time to Sell the “Sizzle”!
My journey into the museum field was a winding road. Graphic design led to marketing and branding. I later transitioned to art education and learned the slings, arrows, and overwhelming payoff of the public school sector. My current …
The CFM Future of Education Tour starts in 2017 in the Southeast!
This week we are pleased to share our own bit of good news: CFM Fellows Sage Morgan-Hubbard and Nicole Ivy announce they are taking their work on the road with The Future of Education Tour. In January 2017, they will set out on the first …
Undoing Adultism in Museum Spaces
Adultism is “the everyday, systematic, and institutionalized oppression that young people face at the hands of adults” (Kivel). Denial of political power. Lack of privacy. Physical and emotional abuse. Arbitrary punishments. Rules they did …
Every child is an artist
“Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist” — Pablo Picasso According to a study by the College Board in 2012, required arts instruction in K-12 schools often comes to an end in middle school – the exact moment when …
Tips for Museum Educators to become Exhibition Design Facilitators
As a museum educator, do you ever feel forgotten? Feel as though your expertise was relegated to the tail-end of exhibition planning? Do you wish museum education played a larger leadership role at your institution? In this blog post, I …
Electing to value education within museums
In today’s post, Sage Morgan-Hubbard, the Alliance’s Ford. W. Bell Fellow for Museums & P-12 Education, announces the relaunch of our education web site, and the launch of a new blog dedicated to to exploring the future …
Dream Big: the Alliance in an Age of Scale
I want to share with you the Alliance’s vision for how museums could play a major role in filling the need for high-quality, equitable early childhood education in the US. Back in June I blogged about the MacArthur Foundation’s …
Selling When We Should Be Investing
When I was a classroom teacher, I assumed that a field trip would never be worth it: not worth the money my school didn’t have, nor the time I didn’t have, nor the learning my students would lose by missing a day of school. This imagined …
Electing to value education within museums
I am not going to lie. Like many of us, I am suffering from election anxiety today. As a parent and educator, I see the glaring gaps in our fractured educational system and become frustrated and pessimistic. At the same time, one of the …
Spontaneous, object-based fun with MuseumProv
I’m always on the lookout for entrepreneurs finding and filling open economic niches in and around museums. Previously, on the Blog, Nick Gray has shared how Museum Hack is building its business on the market for fun, irreverent, social …
