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Thursday, March 20
 

12:00pm EDT

Unionization as Pedagogy: A Praxis for Solidarity Building in and Beyond Art Museums
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Drawing from a research study of the art museum labor movement, this session focuses on pedagogical implications of unionization as a practice of solidarity building. Examining unionization as pedagogy bears implications for civic engagement, offering examples of and lessons in how to build solidarity across power differentials and toward greater equity.
Presenters
AR
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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  Museum Education, Professional Paper Presentation

12:00pm EDT

Conversation With Colleagues: Building Connections Across Regions
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
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Join us for an interactive session to connect with museum education professionals nationwide. Engage in icebreakers and small-group discussions to build relationships and share experiences. Explore common challenges, exchange ideas, and discover involvement opportunities in the NAEA Museum Education Division. Targeted breakout groups for colleagues with similar audience focuses will foster deeper connections. Expand your network, gain new perspectives, and make a greater impact in museum education.
Presenters
JB
Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm EDT
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  Museum Education, Business Meeting/Awards Ceremony

2:00pm EDT

Sensory-Friendly, Community-Driven: A Consortium Model for Inclusive Programming
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Are you creating sensory-friendly programming? Join our practical session! We'll share steps and benefits learned while we formed a consortium for neurodiverse events. It's a model that can be adapted to reflect diverse cultural centers. Leave empowered to seek institutions in your city that share your mission for inclusive, accessible spaces. 
Presenters
AS

Anna Smith

Museum Educator, Nasher Sculpture Garden
LW
MB
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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  Museum Education, Instructional Demonstration

3:00pm EDT

Empowering the People: The Role of Museums in Shaping a Democratic Public Sphere
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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What classifies "democratic practices" within 21st-century museums? This session presents theories, case studies, and mapping strategies to gain an understanding of how to shape ethical, egalitarian programming that welcomes open conversations and active community histories into museum settings, as well as examine how power is distributed within cultural community ecosystems.
Presenters
AL
DH
JG
MF
Thursday March 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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  Museum Education, Deep Dive Research

5:00pm EDT

Creative Connections: Developing Participatory Museum Programming for Adults With Dementia
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Learn the ins and outs of memory care programming! Get an inside look at the development of Creative Connections at the BMA, a participatory tour and artmaking program for adults with dementia. All participants will walk away with a toolkit for launching memory care programming at their own institutions.
Presenters
EA
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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  Museum Education, Instructional Practice

5:00pm EDT

Open Secrets: Revealing Who's Now Paying Museum Educators, How, and Lessons From Tour Staffing Transition
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Are you looking to transform your tour program and move toward paid, equitable staffing? Understand where your museum stands relative to peer institutions in the most comprehensive survey of tour staffing since 2013. Get benchmarking data, case studies, staffing models, and the longitudinal insight you need to advocate for change.
Presenters
VB
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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  Museum Education, Professional Paper Presentation

5:00pm EDT

Policy, Theory, and Practice: Global Currents in Art Museum Education
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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This session offers an introduction to contemporary policy, theory, and practice of global art museum education by noting policy trends from the International Council of Museums; elucidating a networked, technology-centered approach to communication and representation; while providing timely examples of issues in international education and public practice in international museum spaces.
Presenters
AR
JH
DK
Thursday March 20, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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  Museum Education, Big Art Education Questions
 
Friday, March 21
 

8:00am EDT

Achieving the Collaborative "C" in CASEL: A Journey From Museum to Classroom and Back Again
Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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How might we better leverage partnerships between museums and classrooms? This hands-on session focuses on a collaborative effort to adapt an interactive gallery display into a classroom project. Through prompt-based responses, visitors and students expanded beyond the traditionally limited scope of historic American art to engage with relevant themes that affect us today.
Presenters
DM
Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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  Museum Education, Instructional Practice

8:00am EDT

Reaching Beyond the Museum Walls: Approaches to Museum Visit Extensions
Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Learn about a museum's efforts to develop an activity kit that allows students to take their field trip experience home. This presentation will highlight the trial and innovation process, cocreation with classroom teachers, evaluation, and the many logistical challenges that will inevitably occur.
Presenters
MK
Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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  Museum Education, Instructional Practice

8:00am EDT

Recommitting to Engaged Collaborative Practice: Affirming the Roots of Museum Educator Tours
Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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In 2023 Getty updated its Teaching and Learning Plan to focus on interactive engagement and a recommitment to education staff within galleries. Learn from case studies about the deployed activities, and the camaraderie and challenges experienced by the education team and the docents they support.
Presenters
WZ
Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
TBA
  Museum Education, Instructional Demonstration

12:00pm EDT

Enriching K-12 Education Through Museum Partnerships: Insights and Experiences From Three Leading Institutions
Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Four museum educators share strategies for K-12 school tours. They will discuss fostering learning through interactive exhibits and hands-on activities and adapting to diverse student needs. Attendees will learn best practices, common pitfalls, and effective methods for creating meaningful museum experiences.
Presenters
MS

Margarita Sandino

Director of Education, Dixon Gallery and Gardens
BF
CR
LA
Friday March 21, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
TBA
  Museum Education, Instructional Practice

1:00pm EDT

Scratch, Dab, Layer: Printmaking for All Ages, Budgets, and Spaces
Friday March 21, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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A fast-paced printmaking workshop open to all! Join art educators from large and small institutions who share their "greatest printmaking hits." See how these hands-on activities have been adapted for space, age, and abilities as you learn more about the exciting combinations of low-resource, high-impact interactive printing methods and media that are easily transferable.
Presenters
CD
CP
LB
Friday March 21, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
TBA
  Museum Education, Skills Toolbox

2:00pm EDT

Rest Lab: A Pop-Up Experiment for Intentional Rest in a University Art Museum
Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Rest Lab is an ongoing creative collaboration and intervention that challenges capitalistic ideas of productivity, urgency, and hustle culture. Since 2021, six unique versions of Rest Lab have existed in and outside of the art museum that ask: How can we better acknowledge everyone's need for rest?
Presenters
KG

Kamila Glowacki

Education Coordinator, Krannert Art Museum
ID
Friday March 21, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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  Museum Education, Instructional Practice

3:00pm EDT

Playful Learning: Designing and Redesigning Art Gallery Board Games
Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Help redesign a classic game and explore how board games can add a new dimension to your classroom or art museum's gallery facilitation. We invite attendees to join a conversation about alternative, ludic museum and art education strategies that bring a fun and critical focus to the museum experience.
Presenters
AW
AJ
DB
Friday March 21, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm EDT
TBA
  Museum Education, Deep Dive Research

5:00pm EDT

Museums and Universities Collaborating to Increase Participation in Reciprocal Programs
Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
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How can museum educators collaborating with higher education professors work to build new learning opportunities that are both content knowledge building and fun? The Cincinnati Art Museum and Mount St. Joseph University have been working together to build stronger art educators in art history and art expression.
Presenters
avatar for Samantha Gaier

Samantha Gaier

Museum Division Chair, Cincinnati
2020 OAEA Virtual Conference Presenter
MK
Friday March 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
TBA
  Museum Education, Big Art Education Questions
 
Saturday, March 22
 

8:00am EDT

Incorporating Student Choice in K-12 Museum Programs
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
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Two educators from museums of varying sizes and collections will share how they both incorporated student choice in K-12 programming. Participants will learn simple, practical ways to use student choice and have the opportunity to brainstorm with colleagues on ways to embed or create choice-based programming for students.
Presenters
JM

Jeremiah Myers

Cleveland Museum of art
MP
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
TBA
  Museum Education, Instructional Demonstration

12:00pm EDT

How to Measure Social-Emotional Learning in Art Museum/School Partnership Programs
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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Learn how to capture and analyze data to reflect the complex, rich social-emotional learning happening in your classroom or museum. Try instruments from a recent impact study investigating a partnership between an art museum and a public school. Takeaways include concrete tools and creative inspiration!
Presenters
avatar for Sara Egan

Sara Egan

School Partnership Manager, Isabella Stewart Gardner
For the past five years as the School Partnership Manager at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, I have connected Boston students and teachers with Museum through Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS). I teach preK-12th grade students in the Museum and the classroom, train and coach teachers... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
TBA
  Museum Education, Instructional Practice

1:00pm EDT

Three Keys for Building an Outstanding Teaching Artist Training Program
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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This presentation provides examples of how museums can train and foster a sense of community among their teaching artists for on-site and off-site museum programming. Presenters will demo training segments from their case study, and participants will leave with examples and templates of training sessions for building their own programs.
Presenters
BB
MR
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
TBA
  Museum Education, Instructional Practice

1:00pm EDT

Untangling Museum Internships: Creating Rich, Meaningful Experiences for Future Museum Workers
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
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Museum administrators and educators, are you curious about what your interns think about your internship programs? Interns, are you wondering what museum staff are looking for in intern candidates and how to maximize your professional development experience? Join our session to gain insights from graduate interns, internship mentors, and professionals.
Presenters
LZ
RQ
TB
XB
DK
Saturday March 22, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
TBA
  Museum Education, Big Art Education Questions

2:00pm EDT

Inclusive Museum Education in the Context of Parental Rights Legislation
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Explore strategies for inclusive museum education amid evolving parental rights legislation. Through a case study and open discussion, this session will address the balance between educational integrity and parental concerns to gain practical solutions for creating equitable, respectful, and engaging learning environments for diverse audiences.
Presenters
BB
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
TBA
  Museum Education, Big Art Education Questions

2:00pm EDT

Más Idiomas: Language Inclusion in Museums
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Previewing the upcoming book, Language Inclusion in Museums, authored by bilingual museum professionals, advocates for museum-wide translations and facilitation of bilingual programs, this sessions highlights the psychological benefits of multilingualism, and presents a toolkit for advocating and implementing language inclusion policies and practice.
Presenters
AR
GP
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
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  Museum Education, Professional Paper Presentation

3:00pm EDT

Beyond Advisory Groups: Leveraging Professional Learning Communities in Museums as Sustainable Models of Collaboration
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Deepen your understanding of leveraging professional learning communities as cohorts for codevelopment. This approach not only influences new engagement models but also serves as an effective program model. You will gain practical tools for collaboration and leave inspired to develop innovative, impactful programs in their own institutions.
Presenters
EH
JB
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
TBA
  Museum Education, Instructional Practice

3:00pm EDT

Empowering Teen Voices Through Civic Engagement: Innovative Strategies for Facilitating Teen Designed Public Art
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Explore a teen internship program that transforms community concerns into public art. This session shares innovative strategies for engaging youth in meaningful conversations and facilitating collaborative projects around equity and justice. Attendees will gain culturally responsive resources to implement these strategies in their own educational settings.
Presenters
AB
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
TBA
  Museum Education, Instructional Practice

3:00pm EDT

Touch and Tell: Enhancing Museum Experiences for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Unlock the power of touch in this hands-on session designed ti transform museum visits for blind and visually impaired guests. Explore innovative tactile interactives and compelling verbal descriptions that create engaging multisensory experiences. Discover practical strategies to ensure every visitor enjoys equitable access to art.
Presenters
ML

Mallory Lind

The Georgia Museum of Art
Saturday March 22, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
TBA
  Museum Education, Skills Toolbox

4:00pm EDT

Creativity and Hope Amid Educational Restrictions
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Join and reflect with three museum educators who experienced challenges due to education restrictions in their states. Hear tips and strategies on how museum educators can move forward in creating safe and critical-thinking spaces for students amid restrictions and collaborate with peers to consider your own experiences.
Presenters
CD
DM
MP
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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  Museum Education, Instructional Practice

4:00pm EDT

Cultivating Awe for Wellbeing
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Why is awe essential, and how do we encourage it? Learn about a research partnership between a museum and a psychology professor studying how slow wonder-filled looking and awe enhance well-being. Hear how awe fosters resilience and sparks creativity. Discuss strategies to cultivate awe mindsets in your teaching contexts.
Presenters
avatar for Nathalie Ryan

Nathalie Ryan

National Gallery of Art, Senior Educator
Nathalie Ryan is a Senior Educator at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, where she has led programs for families, teens, and adults since 2002. She is mini-course instructor and study group leader at Project Zero Classroom, coaches the PZ-HGSE Visible Thinking online course... Read More →
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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  Museum Education, Instructional Practice

4:00pm EDT

Empowering Critical Thinking Through Art: A Collaborative Initiative
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Discover how a unique partnership between a local museum and public schools is enhancing critical thinking and creativity in Title I students. Explore the innovative use of Project Zero's Thinking Routines in classroom curriculum and guided tours, fostering cognitive and emotional growth through experiential art education.
Presenters
BB
LH
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
TBA
  Museum Education, Instructional Practice

4:00pm EDT

Sounds of Playful Learning Ahead: Cultivating Family-Friendly Museum Cultures
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Hear from presenters of several arts institutions as they share successful strategies for cultivating family-friendly museum environments. Learn low-resource, high-impact approaches to supporting frontline staff, communicating with families, and meeting developmental and sensory needs in complex museum spaces.
Presenters
AR
LB
XF
Saturday March 22, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
TBA
  Museum Education, Instructional Practice
 
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