August 31st, 2019 | RESEARCH
In The Nature of Community: SCIENCES, we share the lessons learned from an innovative partnership designed to leverage the strengths of two nonprofit organizations—a large cultural institution and a smaller, deeply-rooted community-based organization, both of which offer informal science education expertise.
You’ll read first-hand reflections of how staff members, community leaders and members, children, and adults experienced this partnership: the expectations, surprises, challenges, successes, and lessons learned. We hope the description of this partnership inspires other organizations to reach outside of their comfort zones, to try something new, to falter, to listen and learn, to collaborate, to build on complementary strengths, and ultimately to reinforce connections to nature and science wherever you live.
Suggested citation:
Breen Bartecki, S., Kelly, L.-A.D., & Marks, T. (2019). The nature of community. SCIENCES: Supporting a Community’s Informal Education Needs—Confidence and Empowerment in STEM. Brookfield, IL: Chicago Zoological Society.
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Team Members
Sarah Breen Bartecki, Principal Investigator, Chicago Zoological SocietyLisa-Anne DeGregoria Kelly, Co-Principal Investigator, Chicago Zoological Society
Dean Grosshandler, Co-Principal Investigator, University of Illinois at Chicago
Tracy Marks, Author, Beyond Words Strategic Communication
Funders
Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: AISL
Award Number: 1323280
Related URLs
The Nature of Community
SCIENCES: Supporting a Community’s Informal Education Needs—Confidence and Empowerment in STEM
Tags
Access and Inclusion: Low Socioeconomic Status | Urban
Audience: Adults | Educators | Teachers | Evaluators | Families | General Public | Museum | ISE Professionals | Youth | Teen (up to 17)
Discipline: Climate | Ecology | forestry | agriculture | Education and learning science | Geoscience and geography | Nature of science
Resource Type: Reference Materials | Report
Environment Type: Aquarium and Zoo Programs | Informal | Formal Connections | K-12 Programs | Professional Development | Conferences | Networks | Professional Development and Workshops | Public Programs