Youth Programs
This page provides links to a variety of resources to help you plan, design, and develop site-produced interpretive media products.
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 on-boarding information, tools, and resources to help enhance your new employee's performance, commitment, & job satisfaction.
This page is designed for NPS employees who want to discover if coaching is right for them and to find instructions for how to secure one-on-one coaching services.
Chat and Chew is a series of informative webinars offered by the Office of Learning and Development during the lunch time hour.
This recorded webinar examines Director's Order 32, which mandates parks take action to promote a sustainable business environment for cooperating associations.
FriYAY is a podcast and webinar series that covers a variety of topics spanning practical things like how to stay motivated, ways to expand your creativity, connect with others, and tips to keep you grounded!
The Connected Conservation webinars highlight topics and tools aimed at furthering the practice of landscape conservation.
This training series will help parks and partners build and strengthen their relationship through knowledge, awareness, and mutual understanding of their joint missions and initiatives.
Do you have questions about Cooperating Associations and Partnerships? Access a list of regional coordinators here.
This page is for the Historic Preservation Fundamentals Virtual Offering. All information and course materials are provided on this page.
An inclusive, equity-based reference for public history practioners. Includes hot topics and critical perspectives to make your work more accessible.
Cooperating associations are official nonprofit education partners of the NPS. Working side-by-side with NPS staff, nearly 70 associations curate and manage park stores across the National Park System. Through NPS-approved products, programs, and events, they help people better understand and connect with the meanings and themes of a park. Effective interpretive programs ignite curiosity. Cooperating associations help satisfy that curiosity with engaging educational products that allow visitors to take a tangible piece of the experience home with them.
An Association is defined as a private nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation established under State law, with which the NPS has a signed standard Cooperating Association Agreement. Director's Order and Resource Manual 32 provide guidance for those activities performed under a signed standard Agreement. As part of their standard agreement with the NPS, Associations donate proceeds from their sales to support the park’s interpretation, education, and research activities.
Gain familiarity with processing different types of tender and ringing in entrance fees, pass sales, and other common transactions.
The NRSS monthly webinar series shares the work NRSS is doing, what's happening in the field of science and natural resources, and how you can get involved.
The key to transformative experiences is thinking in verbs. What're the actions you’re hoping visitors will take in their own worlds?
The Interpretive Development Program (IDP) offers curriculum-based education learning opportunities for park educators through webinars & virtual courses.
The NPS Integrated Pest Management program, in collaboration with the NPS invasive species programs, is hosting weekly webinars in 2021. Presenters will share information on topics such as Invasive Species, Pesticide Safety, Pesticide Use Proposal System (PUPS), and Museum Management.
Learn more about the GOAL Academy and this year's action learning class projects.
The NER Visitor Experience and Community Engagement SharePoint offers interpretation and education employees a place to share ideas and information.
Learn more about the requirements for operating both manned and unmanned aircraft in the National Park Service.
Over several decades, NPS staff at National Capital Parks East (NACE) has been converting areas from mowed turf into grassy meadow. Learn their process in this resource!
Are you looking for general training resources? Check out the list of opportunities here!
Find more information about the Common Learning Portal; you'll get an introduction to the site and resources to help you navigate and transition from working in the office to working at home.Â