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The following resources were compiled from organizations throughout the nonprofit and museum sector. AAM reviewed and approved each one based on the organization’s authority and …

Watch an overview of the Museums & Schools: The LA Convening

Category: Education & Interpretation
Please check out more about our November Museums & Schools: The LA Convening and be ready for the Museums & Schools: Phoenix edition on Sunday, May 6, 2018, at our upcoming annual …

Magic Bus: Museum Programs for School Audiences: The Basics

Category: Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2011 edition of Museum magazine. There are many kinds of museums and most offer programs for schools. For some museums, these …

My Primary School is in a Museum—US Pandemic Edition

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Can you imagine being a school-age kid during this pandemic? Whether they are glued to a screen trying to learn via Zoom, attending class masked and distanced, or being home-schooled, this …

STEAMing into Solvency: Integrating a Museum into the Public School System

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
The pandemic was an economic tsunami for museums, particularly those already experiencing financial stress. Relatively new museums, still getting their feet under themselves, were at …

What Can Museums Learn from the Harvard Business School?

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
  Joy’s law: no matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else. (Attributed to Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy.) I’m pleased to see the registrations …

Flexible pathways to graduation in Vermont energize museum-school partnerships

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
I gave a shout-out to Vermont museums last September, asking them “wassup” with new legislation in their state giving students the right to personal learning plans. Nina Ridhibhinyo wrote …

Back to School: Museum Studies Programs During Tough Times

Category: Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2012 edition of the Museum magazine.  When the economy took a nose dive in fall 2008, I heard more than one person reference …

Bridges from School to Work

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
This week’s guest blog post is by Kelly Pavich, employee representative and trainer at the Marriott Foundation for People with Disabilities, established in 1989 by the family of J. Willard …

Top Ten Takeaways from the Museums & Schools: The LA Convening

Category: Alliance Blog
Greetings, and Happy New Year! This is Sage Morgan-Hubbard and Megan Lantz from AAM writing to share some of our top takeaways from Museums & Schools: The LA Convening. AAM co-hosted …

Selling When We Should Be Investing

Category: Education & Interpretation
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 …

Alliance Road Trip Will Gather Stories from Museums and Schools in Southeast

Category: Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 5, 2017 ARLINGTON, VA–New, innovative, and even disruptive models for museum-school partnerships are the object of a 13-day, 10-city road trip by two fellows …

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