PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel
SEEKING
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking Specific Expertise
RELATED TOPICS
- Community Outreach
- Public Engagement
- Social Justice
ABSTRACT
This panel will feature various projects in which museums have partnered with local community members to enhance educational experiences. The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation will highlight a collaborative program with a local school district that aims to foster civic engagement through the examination of local history. This program focuses on empowering students and encouraging them to think about the past, present, and future and their role in shaping those things. Students analyzed different governments in the 17th century and compared those historical issues to today and how they can make an impact.
DESCRIPTION
This panel will showcase diverse collaborations between museums and community organizations with an emphasis on youth programming. By integrating museum resources into the school curriculum, we aim to demonstrate the potential for deeper engagement with diverse perspectives, improved critical thinking, and an emphasis on cultural empathy among students. The panel will draw from various examples to discuss best practices when building or strengthening these collaborations, lessons learned from different projects, and strategies for overcoming common challenges in museum-school collaborations. The panel will also be open for questions from the audience to discuss process and share resources to ensure the audience leaves with ideas and suggestions.
We are looking for other panelists to join us with experience in customizing programming for the youth audience. The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation will be presenting on a program designed for the Hampton City School system to tie civic education from the 17th century to the 21st. Students learned about governments in Indigenous North America, England, and West Central Africa in the early 1600s, how those governments were impacted by the arrival of the English in Virginia in 1607, and what those governments looked like a century later. Students were then asked to apply their civic knowledge to modern problems and identify a problem in their community that they can work to resolve. Any panelists with similar (or wildly different) experiences in programming are greatly welcomed. We are also happy to take any suggestions on how to better refine our proposal.
If you have a direct offer of assistance, sensitive criticism, or wish to pass along someone’s contact information confidentially, please get in contact directly: Abby Currier, [email protected]
ALL FEEDBACK AND OFFERS OF ASSISTANCE SHOULD BE SUBMITTED BY JULY 10, 2024. If you have general ideas or feedback to share, please feel free to use the comments feature below.