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Albany CCC Showcase 2023
Albany Teacher and Artist Showcase November 18, 2023 | 10:00 am-12:00pm | FREE to attend The Albany Institute of History and Art | 125 Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12210 Welcome to the CCC Showcase. Experience important local artforms and learn what happened when...
Binghamton CCC Showcase 2023
Binghamton Teacher and Artist Showcase November 18, 2023 | 10:00 am-12:00pm | FREE to attend The Roberson Museum and Science Center | 30 Front St, Binghamton, NY 13905 Welcome to the CCC Showcase. Experience important local artforms and learn what happened when...
2023 AFS Education Track
Folklore and Education Related Presentations, Sessions, and Meetings at the 2023 AFS Conference, November 1-4, Portland, Oregon A list compiled by the American Folklore Society's Folklore and Education Section. Wednesday, November 1 Rooted through Writing: Connecting...
Local Learning Botkin Lecture
The American Folklife Center's latest Botkin Lecture video features Paddy and Lisa. In "Teaching Culture, Teaching Culturally: The Significance of Folklife Education in the Schools" they present an overview of folklore in K-12 education in the U.S. They also discuss...
New York CCC showcases announced!
Culture, Community, and the Classroom workshop explores culturally responsive, engaged learning through local traditional arts. It introduces concepts of cultural identity and opportunities to practice ethnographic research skills such as interviewing, note taking,...
A Cause for Celebration
We recently asked a very special group of individuals, “Do you remember where you were 30 years ago?” Because at Local Learning, we did. In 1993, the Folk Arts in Education Roundtable held at the National Endowment for the Arts explored the intersections of folk arts...
2023 June News
Read our spring quarterly e-bulletin with updates about summer professional development, news from the field, and our reveal of the 2023-2028 Strategic Plan for Local Learning. Read it here!
New Job Posting from Missouri Museum of Art and Archaeology
The University of Missouri Museum of Art and Archaeology seeks a museum educator to develop and implement a variety of high-quality, engaging, and innovative educational and public programs that reflect the Museum’s mission, collections, and exhibitions. The programs...
Announcing our 2023-2028 Strategic Plan
In 2019 the Local Learning board and staff met in Baltimore, MD, to think, work, and dream together as a part of a strategic planning process. We drafted a three-year plan that shaped the dynamic ways that Local Learning could strategically continue to nurture and...
Teaching with Folk Sources at HistoryMiami Museum
HistoryMiami Museum (HMM) will facilitate a section of a teacher professional development workshop that will focus on Cuban immigration curriculum content. This workshop is part of a larger multi-day event for Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Teachers will work with...
New Teaching with Folk Sources workshops announced in Vermont
Presentations and Workshops are planned throughout the spring and summer. Check back here for updates and new offerings. Monday, August 21, 2023 | Barre, Vermont at the Vermont History Center One-day professional learning worksho for educators about teaching with...
2023 March News
Our first quarter news bulletin has information about our growing network. Read more at http://icont.ac/4PKrL Fittingly, this latest newsletter is reaching you as we kick off spring and the growing season. Local Learning has been growing, too, and we're excited to...
See Local Learning at NAEA
The LL Board will be well represented at the National Art Education Association conference in San Antonio April 13-15. Board members Doug Blandy and Flavia Bastos, Lisa Rathje, and Paddy Bowman each have concurrent sessions. For an Artist Showcase that will be video...
Hudson Field Trip 2023
Culture, Community, and the Classroom: Field Trip to Hudson Saturday, April 29, 9am-3pm Hudson Area Library, Hudson, NY Occupational culture contributes to sense of place, history, and aesthetics. This 6-hour interactive, hands-on workshop offers...
Capital Region Primary Sources Workshop 2023
Culture, Community, and the Classroom: Teaching with Primary Sources Wednesday, April 19, 3:30-6:30pm Crandall Public Library, Glens Falls, NY In this workshop, middle- and high-school educators will learn how to teach using primary sources drawn from their...