Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh will strengthen the staff's capacity for seamless collaboration across areas of research and practice by establishing a research practice partnership with Manchester Academic Charter School Middle School. The partnership goals include growing the capacity of museum educators, designers, researchers, partner-school teachers, and administrators, to work together. An additional partnership goal is to lay the foundation for continuous collaborative research that will help the partners address local problems of practice, while advancing field-wide conversations about learning theory, practice, and policy. Museum staff will develop new core competencies in exhibit and program design aimed at supporting learning experiences for youth ages 8-14.