For Educators
Crystal Bridges programs events, workshops, tours, and more for educators throughout the year. Stay tuned to this page for recommendations of opportunities to engage with Crystal Bridges!
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School Tours/Programs
Professional Development
Custom Teacher Professional Development
How many Professional Development sessions have you attended that didn’t meet your needs? Never again!
You can request a customized Professional Development program from the educators in the Crystal Bridges School Programs team guaranteed to meet your needs. As certified professional development providers, our team can design a session of any length about any subject at any grade level. All custom PD sessions will meet state standards and will enable you to easily integrate what you have learned into your classroom instruction.
Professional Development Events
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Reading Beyond Words: Seeing to Understand through Visual Literacy
- $250 ($200/members)
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- Great Hall
Classroom Connections
Crystal Bridges’ Learning and Engagement Department has developed Classroom Connections resources that connect specific works of art with school curricula and offer suggestions for lessons in the classroom.
Enrichment Activities
View the entire Bridging the Gap video series on YouTube. These brief, interactive videos connect works of art from the Crystal Bridges collection to a variety of subjects. They’re intended for use in online classrooms to enhance the teaching and learning in which you are currently engaged.
There Is No Art Without Agriculture: A Look Into Crystal Bridges’ Partnership with Communiversity
Activity: Make a Springtime Artwork with Pressed Flowers
William Reese Company Teacher Fellowship
Empower your teaching with the William S. Reese Teacher Fellowship, an enrichment opportunity open to all educators teaching 5th–12th grades. Whether you’re affiliated with a public, private, or charter school, this fellowship invites you to explore innovative ways of enhancing your curriculum by creating interdisciplinary connections to American books and art. Selected fellows will create classroom lesson plans by leveraging primary sources found in Crystal Bridges’ collection of rare books and manuscripts, with the opportunity to include objects from the museum’s art collections.
Sponsored by Dorothy M. Hurt, the William S. Reese Teacher Fellowship celebrates the contributions of William S. Reese to the print cultures of the Americas and to the development of Crystal Bridges’ special collections.
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