St. Louis Humanities Education Collaborative

FAIN: GA-254296-16

St. Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, MO 63110-1380)
Amanda Thompson Rundahl (Project Director: September 2016 to July 2018)

STLHEC will convene community partners to evaluate and re-imagine “Arts in the Basic Curriculum” (ABC), the Museum’s signature multi-visit tour program that serves 5,000 fourth and fifth grade students every year. During the project period, participants will engage in a professionally facilitated process to uncover the challenges and opportunities of the ABC program, and to identify the humanities standards, instructional approaches, and resources that can be applied to its improvement. Anticipated outcomes include: (1) strengthened cooperation and programming relationships between the Museum and participating organizations; (2) a re-envisioned ABC program with a strong humanities education focus; (3) co-originated ideas for school-museum-community partnership initiatives; (4) an enhanced understanding of local financial resources and expertise available to support humanities education partnership initiatives; and (5) an evaluation plan to measure the short-and long-term impact of the revised ABC program.