This page is designed to empower you with resources curated by a diverse group of Employee Learning & Development staff members from across the service to support you in being either a mentor, mentee, or both!
The Career Academy for Natural Resources is an array of developmental opportunities that allow you to map your own path to professional growth.
This resource provides new employees with opportunities to build your professional and personal development in any place.
What interests you? What do you love learning about? Building Audience Centered Experiences (ACE) is all about how curious we are
Albright Training Center student residences offer comfortable accommodations just one mile from the rim of the Grand Canyon. Find out how to reserve rooms!
A more holistic examination of our shared history can help us better integrate knowledge into a new way of being and interacting together. Use these resources to learn more.
Access a list of discussion guides designed to help you open lines of discussion with visitors, explore new perspectives, invite mutual learning, and potentially evolve collective meaning.
Learn about the de-escalation model, S.L.O.W., and the ways you can implement the model in your interactions with park visitors.
Find information about the NPS Fundamentals Program and resources to help you plan your visit during the residential training.
The Workplace Satisfaction Project shares a menu of diverse morale building resources that employees at any level can use to improve their workplace.
Learn how to transform your website into a thriving hub of a much larger creative community by just checking the fuel gauge and seeing how full of good, useful content your website is.
In this resource, learn how to encourage your visitors to participate and express themselves virtually.
Learn how to leverage social media and questions to engage visitors and encourage them to join a virtual conversation.
The Cultural Resources Training Catalog for 2020, offering both in-person classroom and online courses for National Park Service employees
Watch Jason Church discuss a traditional Louisiana construction method called Bousillage, a Louisiana French term for walls made of mud. Watch the Video To learn more, visit Bousillage.
Watch the Video To learn more, visit Application and Preparation of Limewash.
Watch the Video To learn more, visit Iron Fence Repair.
Resetting a Stone Grave Marker To learn more, visit Resetting a Stone Grave Marker. Lifting and Hoisting Stone Grave Markers To learn more, visit Lifting and Hoisting Stone Grave Markers. Resetting Ground-Supported Headstones To learn more, visit Resetting Ground Supported Headstones. Cleaning a Stone Grave Marker To learn more, visit Cleaning a Stone Grave Marker.
The NPS Fundamentals Residential program is designed for permanent employees who are within their first two years with the National Park Service.
The NPS national headquarters and support centers are collectively called the Washington Support Office (WASO).
Learn how you can use ACE to develop programs and experiences for your younger audiences too!
Learn about what is and isn't covered by copyright laws as a Government employee who creates content. Can it be remixed? Can others use it without permission? Learn here!
The Fundamentals Program is expanding its offerings and taking the program off-site three times in FY20 for employees who might not be able to travel to Grand Canyon.
Using social media to engage and interact with your visitors? Use this resource as a reference guide to encourage and shape how you acknowledge and respond to them.
Social media can be an audience centered, resource driven experience – the resource is the battery and the visitor is the light that shines.