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Cultural Competency: A Powerful Tool for Change

By |October 31st, 2016|Categories: Annual Meeting, Audience, Education and Interpretation|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

At the 2016 AASLH Annual Meeting, the Educators and Interpreters Committee hosted a session on cultural competency featuring staff from the Arab [...]

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Welcome to Our House: How Visitor Experience Planning at Pittock Mansion Lead to Record Attendance 

By |October 28th, 2016|Categories: Historic Houses, Visitors' Voices|Tags: , , , , |

Visitors exploring Pittock Mansion’s 16,000 square feet. As many historic house museums across the country experience declining visitation, Portland’s Pittock [...]

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Four Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in October

By |October 28th, 2016|Categories: Best Practices, StEPs|Tags: , , , |

We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program designed specifically [...]

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“Honk for History” OR “Want Truth? Get History.”

By |May 21st, 2013|Categories: Administration, Annual Meeting, Marketing, Musings & Trends, Professional Development, Small Museums|Tags: , , , , , |

Do we need a brand for history?  I just attended an UnConference Session at the American Alliance of Museums Conference in Baltimore, where a group [...]

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Pinterested Yet?

By |May 15th, 2013|Categories: Audience, Education and Interpretation, Marketing, Programming, Small Museums, Technology and The Web, Visitors' Voices|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

If you haven’t yet fallen under the spell of Pinterest yourself, it might be easy to overlook the possibilities of this simple social bookmarker. But [...]

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Paying it Forward…

By |May 15th, 2013|Categories: Administration, Annual Meeting, Best Practices, Funding, Professional Development, Small Museums, Staff|Tags: , , , , |

Any worker in a small museum can find an excuse not to participate in professional development opportunities. “I don’t have enough time,” or “They can’t [...]

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Why Am I an AASLH Individual Member?

By |May 8th, 2013|Categories: Education and Interpretation, Membership, Professional Development|Tags: , , , , , , |

As you may know, this blog is an initiative of AASLH's Educators and Interpreters Committee. Our mission is to address the needs of educators and [...]

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What I’m Looking For… (thoughts from an 11-year-old museum visitor)

By |May 1st, 2013|Categories: Audience, Best Practices, Education and Interpretation, Historic Houses, Programming, Visitors' Voices|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Slave pen at the Freedom Center The Ed/Interpreters Affinity Committee asked for some input from the committee on what we like when we visit [...]

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