Writing K-12 Lesson Plans for Museums
course begins August 2

The kids will be headed back to school. Their teachers will be needing lesson plans. Are you ready to help?
Join Instructor Tara Young beginning August 2 for the 4 week online professional development course Writing K-12 Lesson Plans for Museums.
This course is designed to teach museum educators how to develop and write formal lesson plans for K-12 programming.
You will review a wide variety of K-12 lesson plans from different types of museums. Each week’s lecture, chat, and assignment will be iterative, and students will end the course with a finished lesson plan that they can put into use at their museums.
For more information: https://www.museumstudy.com/writing-k-12-lesson-plans-for-museums

Collections Emergencies: Preparedness to Resilience
course begins August 2

Diverse hazards are threatening our cultural institutions and can quickly turn into emergencies or disasters. Do you feel comfortable using your emergency plan or responding to an emergency? Have you fully prepared for a response and a resilient recovery? Join Rebecca Kennedy of Curae Collections Care, LLC for the 4 week online course Collections
Emergencies: Preparedness to Resilience. This course will go beyond the basics of emergency planning and teach participants how to turn their plans into living documents that work in all emergency events. We will focus on practical skills to guide participants from preparedness through response, into recovery and finally to resiliency.
For more information: https://www.museumstudy.com/collections-emergencies-preparedness-to-resi...

Leading Together: Working for and With Your Board of Trustees
course begins August 2

Is your relationship with your board collaborative, contentious, or non-existent? Does your board drift between non-management and micromanagement? Do you mentally or emotionally check out of the relationship due to lack of time or commitment?
Anne Ackerson will be leading a new class on Leading Together: Working for and With Your Board of Trustees! This four-week course is geared for executive directors and will cover roles and responsibilities, assessing the board-staff relationship, and putting strategic and integrative thinking to work at board and committee meetings, among other topics. Each week will include readings and assignments. We'll also gather in Zoom chats to explore topics in more depth and problem-solve your CEO-board challenges!
For more information: http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/leading-together-working-...

Laws and Collections Management
course begins August 2

Join instructor John Simmons for the professional development course Laws and Collection Management. The 4 week online course provides an accessible introduction to the ethical principles and legal aspects of managing museum collections by presenting the scope and significance of museum ethics and an introduction to national and international laws and regulations affecting museums.
For more information: http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/laws-collections-management/