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!

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.

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.

Art

• Ruth Asawa
• John James Audubon
• George Wesley Bellows
• John Singleton Copley
• Marsden Hartley
• Jacob Lawrence
• Maya Lin
• Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
• Mark Tansey
• Leo Villareal

Social Studies

• Ruth Asawa
• John Singleton Copley
• Francis Guy
• Jacob Lawrence
• Kerry James Marshall
• Norman Rockwell
• Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
• Mark Tansey
• Richard Woodville

Language

• George Wesley Bellows
• John Singleton Copley
• Jacob Lawrence
• Norman Rockwell
• Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
• Mark Tansey
• Richard Woodville

SEL

• Ruth Asawa
• Louise Bourgeois
• John Singleton Copley
• Marsden Hartley
• Jacob Lawrence
• Kerry James Marshall
• Jaune Quick-To-See Smith

Science

• John James Audubon
• Louise Bourgeois
• Gabriel Dawe
• Maya Lin
• Leo Villareal

Math

• John James Audubon
• Gabriel Dawe
• Dan Flavin
• Leo Villareal

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.

Learn about Reese Fellowships