This series of tests from Project Implicit measures implicit biases and preferences regarding race, abilities, gender, age, appearance and other factors.
Interpreters and educators do not practice in a vacuum; they bring to their work personal experiences, values, and biases. Learn more about cultural competency and bias here!
Implicit bias refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner.
Describes how interpreters and educators develop critical self-awareness of values and bias as a means to better communicate with diverse audiences.
This page provides access to a "starter kit" of resources to help you develop and hone your skills in facilitated dialogue.
Learn about the de-escalation model, S.L.O.W., and the ways you can implement the model in your interactions with park visitors.
For this activity, you’ll be watching or listening to a short interpretive program, then trying your hand at coaching the interpreter who offered that product. Dave’s Program Your coachee is Dave. You’ll learn a bit more about Dave in a bit. But first, take an opportunity to watch Dave’s program: Getting to Know Dave Of
Interprecon is an online learning experience focused on interpretation and education featuring exciting talks presented by field-based practitioners across the NPS and beyond.
Peer Coaching & feedback are the bedrock of making interpretation better. Feedback helps us see new ways interpretive experiences can grow and change.
Use the ACE Wheel Model rubric to help you see what you're shining at and make your audience centered experiences even better.
Citizen science is a great thing to do in national parks! This page provides guidance, resources, toolkits, and related information.
What interests you? What do you love learning about? Building Audience Centered Experiences (ACE) is all about how curious we are
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.
This guide provides information about how to approach dialogue surrounding the history of slavery, freedom, and race in America.
The Audience Centered Experience (ACE) approach to interpretation allows parks to gain skills in critical thinking, problem solving, innovation, global awareness and scientific literacy.
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.
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 NPS has an obligation to make all published educational materials accessible to people of all abilities. Learn how to fulfill 508 compliance requirements in this resource.
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
This page provides links to a variety of resources to help you plan, design and develop site-produced interpretive media products.
Learn more about the Common Core and how it encourages teachers to offer up complex content for their students to analyze, look for biases, and solve problems.
Learn how you can use ACE to develop programs and experiences for your younger audiences too!
In this resource, learn how to send invites to volunteers and partners so they can join the CLP.