P-12 education – American Alliance of Museums

Museums Can Help Transform Education

By Katherine Prince

Last week I spent an inspiring afternoon in a Zoom workshop dedicated to envisioning “liberatory futures” for P-12 education. How can we collectively create an educational future that is rooted in equity, self-determination, and the right …
For Your Radar: The National Association of Museum Schools

By Katherine Kelbaugh

When invited to make a statement I’d like to be true in the future, I often offer a vision of America in which “any child can choose to go to school in a museum.” Today’s guest post by Katherine Kelbaugh shares progress towards my …
The Promise of Virtual Education Programs: Cross-Cultural Exchange, School-Museum Collaborations, and STEAM Learning (and Lemurs!)

By Susan Dorsey

To continue providing meaningful experiences for pre-K through twelfth-grade audiences in the era of COVID-19, museums must re-envision educational practice for the virtual realm. By sharing about a pre-COVID virtual education program I …
Opportunities for Museums to Lead for the Future of Learning

By Katherine Prince

When the Alliance launched the Center of the Future of Museums a decade ago, museum people told us loud and clear that they wanted us to explore the future of education as part of our work. Over the years we’ve created an extensive …
Leaving the country for new models and brilliant inspirations! “My Primary School is at the Museum” and the Museum Association Conference 2017

By Sage Morgan Hubbard

I have been blessed to attend many conferences over the course of my Ford W. Bell fellowship and have helped support many projects over the past year, however, none have been as comprehensive and accessible as the “My Primary School …
Watch an overview of the Museums & Schools: The LA Convening

By Sage Morgan Hubbard

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 meeting. We can’t wait to share with you and …
Quick wins for building empathy with visitors: 4 hacks inspired by School Retool

By Dana Mitroff Silvers

This post originally appeared on Design Thinking for Museums and is republished here with permission. Last spring and this winter, I’ve had the opportunity to work as a coach for a project called School Retool, an initiative …
The power of evaluation: Assessing how museum experiences influence classroom practice at the Monticello Teacher Institute

By Lora Cooper

When teachers talk about the value of field trips to their students, the power of experiencing history or being in “the room where it happen[ed]” to quote Lin-Manuel Miranda, is often mentioned. The same is true for teachers themselves, …
Top Ten Takeaways from the Museums & Schools: The LA Convening

By Sage Morgan Hubbard

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 this event with the Partnership for Los Angeles …
A New Educational Era

By Elizabeth Merritt

As formal learning methods are cast in doubt, the learning landscape is reinvented. We see signs that the U.S. is nearing the end of an era in formal learning characterized by teachers, physical classrooms, age-cohorts and a core …