Don't get stopped before you even get started! This six-module course gives you the foundations everyone should know before beginning a strategic planning process. You'll explore best practices in strategic planning for interpretive teams, including understanding planning options, learning a strategic planning model, forming planning teams and engaging stakeholders, and more!
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This course consisting of four modules will teach interpreters how to evaluate their interpretive product. Evaluation of an interpretive product is linked closely with the goals of that product. If the goal is the overarching “why,” “what,” or purpose of a piece of interpretation, the objectives are the more specific steps to take to reach that goal, and what we measure to see if the goal has been reached; in other words, the objectives are “how” we reach the goal.
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Offered in partnership with The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience ("the Coalition" or "ICSC"), this course will provide an introduction of frameworks and tools Coalition members use to build just and humane futures out of stories of harm. The Coalition is a global network of over 350 museums, historic sites, memorials and memory initiatives in 66 countries dedicated to transforming places that preserve the past into spaces that promote civic action.
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The safest reusable straw.
Unlike some alternatives like bamboo or glass straws, stainless steel straws don't break easily and can even hold up against rust.
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Angela Yau
90 minutes
Date Recorded: January 25, 2022
How can you move from “build and they will come” to “meet them where they are?” Learn how to create a mobile interpretive program vehicle to connect to your community. We’ll discuss the planning, design, and implementation process along with considerations to help you succeed with your own mobile outreach.
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Erica Stephens
60 Minutes
Date Recorded: January 15, 2026
Discover interpretive techniques and creative ways to connect people to your parks through art!
Goals:
1. Inspire others to incorporate art in their programs for diverse audiences in accessible ways.
2. Ways to move past the mindset of I’m not an artist
3. Provide art program examples that include cultural perspectives along with interpretive technique... Details
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Essential Tools and Understandings for Interpretive Planning
Katie Shea
60 minutes
Date Recorded: January 23, 2025
Join us for an insightful webinar designed to equip participants with the knowledge and skills needed to engage respectfully and effectively with Tribal communities. Whether you're a professional working with Tribal communities or simply interested in learning more, this webinar will provide valuable guidance and practical tips for... Details
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Shawn Halifax
90 Minutes
Date Recorded: January 26, 2023
Be introduced to the pillars of ethical history interpretation. This approach to interpretation collaborates with those whose history is suppressed and misrepresented and integrates their stories into corrective narratives that reveal people holistically, while being empathetic to learners—connecting them to past, present, and future conditions, and providing frontline history workers the highest... Details
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Julie Gee
60 minutes
Date Recorded: January 31, 2024
Many interpreters have never studied writing, yet are expected to write text for displays, wayside exhibits, etc. This webinar will explore the genre of interpretive writing and what makes it different from other forms of writing. Activities will demonstrate good writing principles using the participant’s site.
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Robert Barrett
90 minutes
Date Recorded: February 12, 2026
Tennessee State Parks evaluates programs based on their logistical and fiscal costs and weighs them against their potential for fiscal and non-fiscal returns. You can learn how to use this tool at your site.
- See how value exceeds costs
- Stay mission-focused and gain leadership support
- Identify conservation, management, social, health, and fiscal program... Details
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Paul Caputo
60 minutes
Date Recorded: February 13, 2025
Imagine a worldwide audience of millions of people ready to hear your important interpretive message while they are out for a run, walking their dogs, doing dishes, or running errands in their car. This webinar will share tips and techniques on starting and maintaining a podcast, and delve into why interpreters are uniquely suited to this popular medium.
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Strategies and Skills to Enhance your Guest Engagement
Adam Senior
2 hours
Date Recorded: February 28, 2024
Adam Senior of CREW training and Development will present a 'lighthearted but hard hitting' interactive presentation skills development webinar that will allow participants to walk away with immediate techniques to enhance their programs' effect and increase donations/income. Participants will build confidence, undertake dynamic... Details
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Karin Hostetter & James Fester
90 minutes
Recorded on: March 12, 2026
Questions have the power to make or break a program. The right question at the right time leads participants into a journey of discovery and meaning. Empowering them to ask their own questions is the awakening of stewardship. This webinar will explore how to use questions to lead participants from curiosity to stewardship and self-actualization.
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Leigh Spencer and Katy Carchedi
2 hours
Date Recorded: March 13, 2025
Using the Great Plains Zoo's successful Junior ZooKeeper program as an example, we discussed the process of creating a teen involvement program, managing its growth, and transforming it into a true youth pipeline for your organization.
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Dr. Jacquie Gilson
90 minutes
Date Recorded: March 27, 2024
Contemporary interpreters are tasked with facilitating experiences and not solely imparting information. This webinar examines skills from the facilitation field that could enhance visitor-centered interpretation. Facilitation skills include active listening, creating a welcoming environment, fostering participation, managing group dynamics, and more. Join us to enhance your interpretive practice... Details
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Kristin Robinson
2 hours
Date Recorded: March 27, 2025
Dreaming of getting paid to travel the world as an interpreter? Learn how to adapt those familiar principles and tools to over-the-road work. We discussed strategies to interpret new content every day for days on end, and other skills to help you thrive in this unusual interpretive environment.
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Owen Oliver
90 Minutes
Date Recorded: March 28, 2023
Want to learn how to respectfully include tribal nations into your tours and various points of interpretation? This webinar will focus on why tribal engagement is important and how you can begin to start reaching out. You will also learn appropriate language and protocols when engaging with tribes. This webinar builds upon past sessions around Land Acknowledgements and Identifying Place.
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Kelley Brugmann
75 minutes
Date Recorded: March 29, 2022
Simple adaptive changes to an event creates an inviting and safe space for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Hear how "Silent Night," an adaptive holiday event, was highly successful and discover how you can easily adapt your events to create an inclusive opportunity for all.
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Trevor Steinbach
60 minutes
Date Recorded: April 9, 2026
This hands-on workshop will lead you through real-world uses of both Gemini and CHAT GPT in interpretation for your position in a park, nature center, historical site, or cultural site. Participants will use AI to modify and/or create new materials for use in their specific job.
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Karin Hostetter
2 hours
Date Recorded: April 10, 2025
One use for evaluation is to improve products such as exhibits, programs, and written communication. Knowing your goal and objectives and then designing questions to measure success toward meeting those is a skill that improves with practice. We will work with best practices to write questions which give meaningful and useable information. Emphasis is on development evaluation tools which give practical... Details
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Ken Forman, Educator with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
60 minutes
Date Recorded: April 12, 2022
You’ve probably heard about origami “peace cranes” or flapping birds, or water bombs. You may have folded a fortune teller as a youth. But have you ever considered including paper folding in your educational programs?
Come learn how to fold several easy models and how to share them connecting kinesthetically.
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Don Enright
60 minutes
Date Recorded: April 17, 2024
Many of us dream of cutting the cord from our employer and setting out on our own as a freelancer. What is freelance life like in reality? How do you get started? How do you market yourself? Join freelance interpretive planner and writer Don Enright for this interactive webinar. Bring your questions and your freelance dreams.
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Matt Villamaino
90 minutes
Date Recorded: April 26, 2024
We all have the same amount of time each week to do what needs to be done. Learn how you can use that time more efficiently to become more productive. In addition to covering core time management fundamentals, we will also cover how to integrate the challenges of scheduling while working a public facing job with minimal administrative time.
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Alan Leftridge
2 hours
Date Recorded: October 3, 2024
Interpretive writing requires writers to have a deep knowledge of their readers' interests to make meaningful connections, relate to readers' values, and be personable. This session targets the need to use figurative language and vivid words and to be concise and focused to meet communication goals and honor readers' interests.
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Desiray Wilson
90 minutes
Date Recorded: May 14, 2026
Discover how My NASA Data empowers interpreters to craft engaging, site-specific experiences. This session explores using local NASA satellite data to enhance your site's narrative. Move beyond generic resources and connect visitors with regionally relevant data, fostering a deeper understanding and appreciation of their surroundings. This interactive session equips you to leverage the Earth System... Details
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