The Cultural Resources Training Catalog for 2020, offering both in-person classroom and online courses for National Park Service employees
In this resource, learn how to encourage your visitors to participate and express themselves virtually.
What interests you? What do you love learning about? Building Audience Centered Experiences (ACE) is all about how curious we are
Learn about the de-escalation model, S.L.O.W., and the ways you can implement the model in your interactions with park visitors.
News You Can Use Landscape Culture is a quarterly newsletter publication for landscape stewards prepared by the NPS Park Cultural Landscapes Program. Please find past issues of the newsletter below. SUMMER: Read the Summer 2019 edition (PDF) Replanting John Muir’s Victorian Garden 1 Selecting Nursery Stock Part 2: Plant Inspection Employee Spotlight: Lanette King Pests
Peer Coaching & feedback are the bedrock of making interpretation better. Feedback helps us see new ways interpretive experiences can grow and change.
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.
Tips for keeping your drinking water supply safe when you're using less of it.
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.
Find a series of quick reference guides to help you build new digital experiences for your visitors. The guides are easily downloadable as PDFs, or browsable right here on the CLP.
Learn how to leverage social media and questions to engage visitors and encourage them to join a virtual conversation.
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.
Looking to build your interpretive skills? There’s no need to pay for tuition or fees to get the latest and greatest interpretive learning. So much of it lives right here in the Common Learning Portal! From workbooks and activities you can explore, to books and blogs you should read, there’s so many resources to help
Learn how you can use ACE to develop programs and experiences for your younger audiences too!
Learn advanced RBMS POS sales transactions including product upgrades and pass replacements.
Learn how to successfully process returns and voids. Complete returns with or without an RBMS receipt.
In this resource, learn how to send invites to volunteers and partners so they can join the CLP.
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!
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.
As we shift to sharing park resources and stories in a virtual sphere, use the best practices outlined in this guide to help you plan and execute an engaging virtual tour for your visitors.
Access online trainings, webinars, and learning resources to help you enhance your knowledge in the areas of Historic Preservation and Cultural Resources.