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Dear All,

I thought you might be interested in some studies we are conducting 
at the Center for Informal Learning and Schools:

(1) a study of the current scope of relationships between ISIs and 
schools.  Highlights of this study can be found on our website 
(http://www.exploratorium.edu/cils/landscape/index.html)

(2) a follow-up study looking specifically at ISI-based teacher 
development programs.  What is the nature, scope, and outcomes of 
these programs?

(3) another folllow-up study that looks at a subset of museums that 
have developed particularly string relationships with local school 
districts to understand what features of the programs are 
particularly useful, salient, and valued by the districts.

(4) a study of museum-schools to look at organizational and 
partnership issues involved in bringing these two cultures together

Results of all of these studies should be posted a year from now.

Our website has other resources on these issues, including some short 
papers on five different topics that resulted from our annual 
conference (Bay Area Institute). 
http://www.exploratorium.edu/cils/research.html

One of these papers (written by me and Rob Semper) summarizes some of 
the mission oriented issues around working with schools.  This 
webpage also has links to all of the studies being done by the 
graduate students and postdocs who are a part of CILS.

Best wishes,

Bronwyn.

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Bronwyn Bevan
Director, Center for Informal Learning and Schools

Exploratorium
3601 Lyon Street
San Francisco, CA  94123

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