This competency describes how interpreters and educators embrace site research and continuous collaborative learning about the relevance of their sites.

An essential theme question is a building block of an audience-centered experience. Learn the qualities & some examples of good essential theme questions.

This competency describes the skills for designing visitor experience through collaboration, knowledge of medium and technique, analysis and iteration.

What interests you? What do you love learning about? Building Audience Centered Experiences (ACE) is all about how curious we are

On this page, you will find a series of articles featuring successful virtual Interpretation and Education programs that align with the Foundation of Interpretation, Competencies for 21st Century Interpretation.

The following draft elements of success were created by the Interpretation And Education Peer Feedback Community in September 2016.

The key to transformative experiences is thinking in verbs. What're the actions you’re hoping visitors will take in their own worlds?

Marc Stern and Robert Powell have uncovered a simple set of outcomes that every environmental education program should be aiming towards.

Describes how interpreters and educators develop critical self-awareness of values and bias as a means to better communicate with diverse audiences.

This easy-to-read chart outlines the strengths and weaknesses of a variety of techniques for facilitated dialogue.

Dialogic questions are the heartbeat of audience-centered experiences. Here are guidelines and examples of dialogic questions.

Successful interpretation enriches and enhances people’s experiences with heritage resources. It helps them explore personal meanings within a resource.

This competency describes how interpreters can continuously learn about, engage with, and build audience and community at their sites.

Provides a reference for interpreters to identify familiar concepts within the Foundations document and provoke discussion of evolving terms and concepts.

Here is a short reminder of the many ways interpreters and educators can gather knowledge about their audiences through informal methods.

Defines the core values statements of the History Relevance Campaign and the seven principles of history that drive the efforts of the Campaign.

In 1975, Freeman Tilden, the author of "Interpreting Our Heritage" and pioneer in the field of Interpretation, shared his hopes for the American Bicentennial.