This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. Whether or not public programs are again canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Earth Day each April 22 warrants the engagement of the museum sector. Emlyn Koster explains why. “Earth Day 1970 gave a voice to an emerging public consciousness about the state […]
Comment on Vulnerability (in the Workplace) in the Time of a Pandemic by Relevance Revisited » RK&A
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. […] post-2020 is to be bold, to question the status quo, to take risks. Boldness relates to vulnerability, which I wrote about in the early weeks of the pandemic. Being truly bold requires that one […]
Improving Our Museum Labels Through A Harm Reduction Lens: Part 1
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. It’s always a pleasure to share this page with our friends and colleagues in museums. Today we’re delighted to share the first post in a new four-part series by Rachel Nicholson from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (located in Kansas City, MO). Every […]
Comment on Social and Emotional Learning is Imperative and in Museum Educators’ Wheelhouse by Social and Emotional Learning is Imperative and in Museum Educators’ Wheelhouse: Part 2 » RK&A
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. […] clients, colleagues, and research participants further drove this point home for me. In my first post, I wrote about how important question-posing is for social and emotional learning and how museum […]
Museum propulsion and performance: orchestral insights
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. The next time our senses are filled with an orchestral experience, Emlyn Koster suggests we take away some contemplative lessons for the needs of museums. A lecture titled ‘The Two Solitudes’ by novelist and chemist C.P. Snow at the University of Cambridge in […]
Comment on RK&A’s anti-racism pledge by Anti-racism Pledge: 3-month Update » RK&A
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. […] has been three months since we pledged our commitment to anti-racist […]
Anti-racism Pledge: 3-month Update
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. It has been three months since we pledged our commitment to anti-racist practices. We at RK&A, individually and collectively, pledge our commitment to being anti-racist—which we recognize as an ongoing pursuit through our everyday actions. To hold ourselves accountable, we want to document […]
Comment on Museums and Climate Change: A Form-follows-Function Perspective by Emlyn Koster, PhD
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. As resources for reflection, museum experiences are at their most impactful when, one life at a time, they turn apathy into interest, interest into insight, and insight into action. As soon as public health conditions permit, museum toolkits should add topical conversations to […]
Vision-Driven Leadership: Now More Than Ever
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. Emlyn Koster urges the museum sector to combine operational recovery efforts with strategic pathways towards a more holistic societal and environmental future. “The very subject of our discussion shows the painful anxiety and uncertainty with which we search for our proper function in […]
Comment on Museums and Climate Change: A Form-follows-Function Perspective by Molly Paul
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. Fascinating commentary on the role of museums in educating visitors on climate change! It seems like it would be difficult to reconcile both the multi-million-year perspective a geoscientist might have with the year to year perspective a beach house owner may have, yet […]