California African American Museum

The California African American Museum (CAAM) will redesign its hands-on learning exhibition, the Gallery of Discovery, publish a curriculum aligned with California state standards, and provide on-site professional development workshops and in-class support to a network of teachers from local schools. To accomplish these objectives, CAAM will hire an education consultant and increase the hours of its outreach coordinator. These two positions will work in collaboration to identify the needs of the target schools and recruit teachers and students for CAAM's Education Expanded! Initiative. The project will increase access to arts and culture programming for students and their teachers through on-site programming and off-site learning experiences. Project activities will address the disparity of access to arts and cultural opportunities among middle and high school students from Title I schools in the museum's immediate and adjacent neighborhoods.