Systems Thinking: Navigating Complexity in Museums

Episode 14

Released 12/16/2024

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After nearly two decades of wrangling glue sticks, chaperones, and spreadsheets, I left my museum education director job to become a museum education researcher.

Now I support educators like you by bridging the gap between scholarship and practice, so that you can reclaim your creativity, energy, and (if we’re lucky) your lunch break!

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