*Friends of Drake Well, Inc.* 205 Museum Lane    Titusville, PA 16354 ra-phdrakewell@pa.gov | (814) 827-2797 | www.drakewell.org   *Friends of Drake Well, Inc.’s Summer Museum Intern Program is for students who are:* Attending college/university at time of application and have completed at least one year of classes in college/university at the start of the internship. Recent college graduates (December 2025 or May 2026 grad date) are also encouraged to apply. Working toward a degree in Museum Stu ...Continue Reading

Good afternoon, colleagues! The 2026 Keystone Summer Internship postings are here! Links are below, and all internships will be posted until February 8th, 2026. [*]The 2026 Keystone Summer Internship will run 10 weeks and 225-300 hours between May 11, 2026 and August 21, 2026. [*]Interns will be paid $17.38 an hour. [*]All applicants must be enrolled at a college or university in an undergraduate or graduate program at the time of their internship, and additional requirements may apply (details are noted on eac ...Continue Reading

Third & final call.... please take a minute to read this if you work at a museum that participates in Museums for All. Survey participants are still needed. Thank you! ~Beth Dear Museum Colleague, I am a museum director and a doctoral student in Interdisciplinary Leadership at Creighton University, conducting a research study on leadership practices in museums. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the transformational leadership of museum leaders and their implementation of activities ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues,The theme for the 2026 /Journal of Folklore and Education/ is Teaching with Monsters: From Whimsy to Shadow, Guest Editors Camille Maria Acosta and Sheila Bock, due date April 1, 2026. Please share our Call for Submissions with your networks.  The 2026 Journal of Folklore and Education seeks submissions that recognize monsters, cryptids, and the legendary beings of our family stories and community narratives as powerful communicative tools in the classroom and beyond. Th ...Continue Reading

Hi friends. I’m spreading the word about a new small-group intensive program I’m offering to help us all with the overwhelm of uncertainty we’re currently facing. I’d love to have some of you with me. And if this isn’t for you right now, I’d immensely appreciate it if you could spread the word to your networks. *_Wayfinder (https://rachelropeik.com/wayfinder)_* Tired of rumination spirals at 2am? Living in your head instead of your body? Feeling like staying afloat is your only goal? ...Continue Reading

These are great!!! Thank you! *From:* talk@museum-ed.org <talk@museum-ed.org> *Sent:* Saturday, November 29, 2025 9:27 AM *To:* talk at museum-ed.org <talk@museum-ed.org> *Subject:* Re: [talk] Body based pedagogy/bodystorming at historic sites/museums? Hi there, A couple other suggestions-When I was at the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, Library for the Performing Arts,  I used the book-Dance About Anything to help generate programs that focused on movement in the galleries and other space ...Continue Reading

Hi there,A couple other suggestions-When I was at the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, Library for the Performing Arts,  I used the book-Dance About Anything to help generate programs that focused on movement in the galleries and other spaces.  I also spoke with the exhibition design team to make sure there was space within the gallery/exhibit design for movement.  Finally, I connected with a site-specific dance company that could help brainstorm ideas, and also sell dancing in the space to ...Continue Reading

Our upcoming virtual Lunch & Learn is only a week away! Are you interested in learning from SoCal museum leaders on designing an impactful and creative education program recently featured in the New York Times? Join us Friday, December 5, 2025 from 12:30 to 1:30 PM PST for a virtual conversation with educators from the the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art for an exciting case study and review of the award-winning 2024-2025 OC Young Curators program, which is redefining youth engagement in the ...Continue Reading

Come to us— we can’t come to you. Sent by Pony ExpressOn Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 2:17?PM Murphy, Matthew MMurphy@njleg.org [talk at museum-ed.org] <talk@museum-ed.org> wrote: Looks like the attachment didn’t go through the list serv relay. Here is a link to it as Google Doc.____ __ __ My bad!____ __ __ Matt____ __ __ *From:* talk@museum-ed.org <talk@museum-ed.org> *Sent:* Friday, November 21, 2025 1:05 PM *To:* talk at museum-ed.org <talk@museum-ed.org> *Subject:* RE: [talk] T ...Continue Reading

Looks like the attachment didn’t go through the list serv relay. Here is a link to it as Google Doc.   My bad!   Matt *From:* talk@museum-ed.org <talk@museum-ed.org> *Sent:* Friday, November 21, 2025 1:05 PM *To:* talk at museum-ed.org <talk@museum-ed.org> *Subject:* RE: [talk] Teacher Program Attendance Decline Hey,                Thought I’d share this paper about the effectiveness of teacher PDs.  Seems relevant to th ...Continue Reading