August courses on Museum Study plus Decolonizing course

August courses on Museum Study plus Decolonizing course

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Laws and Collections Management 4 week 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 visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/laws-and-collection-management

Writing K-12 Lesson Plans for Museums 4 week 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 visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/writing-k-12-lesson-plans-for-museums

Collections Emergencies: Preparedness to Resilience 4 week 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 visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/collections-emergencies-preparedness-to-resilience

Leading Together: Working for and With Your Board of Trustees 4 week 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 W. Ackerson will be leading a 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 visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/leading-together-working-for-and-with-your-board-of-trustees 

Decolonizing Museums in Practice 8 week course begins October 4
Articles about decolonizing museums are everywhere these days, but what does this actually mean in practice for museum professionals?
Join Laura Phillips, Heather George, and Nathan Sentance for this 8 week online course where we will focus on looking critically at how museum professionals can activate decolonial ways of thinking in their own work environment, and in their day to day life.
We will investigate how the words of contemporary Indigenous scholars and curators can be put into practice to promote practices that de-centre the subtle (and not so subtle) colonial ways of thinking that surround us every day.
The text book can take a while to arrive so make sure to order it well in advance if you can not find it locally. This course fills early, registration is now open for the October/November course.
For more information visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/decolonizing-museums-in-practice