Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh will collaborate with a team of partners and local advisors to expand the Genius, Joy and Love program to incorporate co-learning experiences in which high school students and teachers participate in three types of activities: research-based workshops about education practices that value students’ experiences outside school as assets; art and making activities; and supported action planning. The project will be conducted in three phases. Phase one will carry out a version of the program where adults and youth are balanced co-learners, phase two will review evaluation results from phase one and develop new modular programs, and phase three will embed the program as a regular part of the museum’s mission-aligned programming. The project will raise awareness of equity-based approaches to educating, support meaningful collaboration, and empower participants with action plans to recognize and address injustice so that program participants feeling energized and motivated to reclaim education.