Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion

Creating an Inclusive Museum Field Trip

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Museum education should be for everyone. To create a field trip for all students requires intentionality, cultural humility, and collaboration. Inclusion and accessibility should be considered and prioritized at every step of the process. From simple language shifts to overhauling programmatic content, four educators will share practical steps to enable social, physical, and cognitive engagement for all learners.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will learn techniques and approaches useful in developing and enhancing diversity and inclusion initiatives at their own institutions and with their own field trip groups.
• Discuss strategies, assess which may be applicable to your institution, and leave equipped to implement new techniques, information, and resources.
• Participants will be able to identify principles of universal design for learning and how to apply them to informal education.

Presenter(s)

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  Megan Becker

  Access Programs Specialist
  Penn Museum
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  Abigail Diaz

  Director of Education & Public Programs
  Wisconsin Maritime Museum
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  Jennifer Edginton

  Curator of Education
  Kenosha Public Museums
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  Leila Makdisi

  Education Coordinator
  Museum of Science and Industry Chicago