DC Museum Collaborative

Abstract

In connection with Teaching American History grants, teachers from around the country visit Washington, D.C., on a regular basis, but they visit each museum separately and the experience is linked only by geography. The goal of this new project was to bring together representatives from area museums and organizations to talk about the wide array of professional development programs that are available to grantees, and talk about ways that we might better coordinate our programs to provide more seamless field experiences for these grantees when they are visiting the DC area. The project ran from 2009-2011 and is hosted at chnm.gmu.edu/dc-collaborative.