Museums
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Teaching
Opinion
Response: Classroom Walls Can Be 'Museums of Learning'
Ron Berger, Oman Frame, Martha Caldwell, Valentina Gonzalez, Julie Jee, Michael Sivert and Stacey Shubitz contribute their responses to the question: How can we use class walls most effectively?
School & District Management
Opinion
Design Thinking, City as Classroom, Museum as Home Base
Tom recently visited the Grand Rapids Public Museum School that's rooted in design thinking and place-based education. Here's a look at the school and how they're using their XQ Super School grant to extend their vision for high-quality, community as a classroom learning opportunities for more students.
School & District Management
Museums Are Dabbling in Teacher Training, and the Results Are Promising
A New York City effort aimed at preparing teachers to take learning outside the classroom and into the community may be leading to improvements in science achievement and teacher retention, according to some study results.
Student Well-Being
Opinion
'Mysteries at the Museum' Offers Engaging History Lessons
It's amazing where ideas come from when it comes to be creative as a teacher. As I'm watching this program and writing this post, I've had a million other ideas of how I could differentiate this one idea for the particular students in my class. If my goal is to get students engaged with story telling and doing research about their personal history and tying that personal history to larger history, then by providing choice and voice, I'd hope the students would strengthen valuable skills while learning new content.
Equity & Diversity
African-American History Museum Gears Up for School Visits
Official school tours don't start at the national museum until 2017, but classes are already flocking to the museum and tapping its resources.
Standards
Video: New STEM Teachers Learn at the Museum
As part of a special report on ways to support new teachers, the Ed Week video team examined a program for first- and second-year science educators held at San Francisco's hallowed Exploratorium.
Social Studies
Students Help Holocaust Museum 'Citizen History' Project Dig Up Local News
Students and teachers are searching through local newspaper archives to discover how American newspapers reported on Nazi Germany.
Curriculum
Art Museum Woos Younger Generation Via Snapchat, Instagram
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is generating a huge online following of young people through its irreverent use of social networking tools.
School & District Management
Civil Rights Museum on Wheels Rolls From New York to Tampa, Fla., District
The "Destination Diversity" tour, part of a digital civil rights course being taken by students in two districts hundreds of miles apart, is making stops in Washington, Greensboro, N.C., Atlanta, and Tampa.
Teaching
Opinion
Virtual Expeditions Highlight Culture, Nature, and Museums
Money, time, buses--all the reasons that field trips are being cut. But virtual expeditions can bypass all of these constraints.
Science
Air and Space Museum's Student 'Explainers' Program Gets a Boost
A program at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in which trained high school and college students lead demonstrations and hands-on activities about flight is expanding and going online.
Teaching
'Flipped Museum' Pilot Upends Traditional Field Trip Model
The North Carolina Museum of Art is applying the "flipped classroom" model, in an effort to better engage students.
Curriculum
With 'Local Control' Funds, Calif. District Buys Field Trips
New funding rules that put school spending decisions in the hands of local communities have spurred a renewed interest in field trips for students in Vallejo, Calif.
Curriculum
Prominent Art Galleries Release Complete Digitized Collection
The Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington have released their entire digitized collection, including hi-resolution images of more than 40,000 objects in the museums' Asian art collections.