Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
Anticipated Venue Dates:
February-September, 1999
Greatest Places Leadership Institute (GPLI) Contact:
Colleen Blair
817-732-1631 extension 338
817-732-7635 fax
cblair@metronet.com email
Institutional Goal: Create extraordinary learning environments.
Greatest Places Action Plan Overarching Goal: Establish communication
networks with internal and external stakeholders about how Greatest
Places can provide learning opportunities for their audiences and
constituencies.
Phase One Title: Communicate with Internal Stakeholders
Program Goals: Share Greatest Places Institute and Film Opportunities
and resources with internal stakeholders. Film resource "package"
consists of film, educational enhancements such as trunks, teacher
guides, family guide, website; and full array of marketing material.
Main question to all groups: what opportunities does this project
present and how do these opportunies align with our constituents?
Internal Institutional Stakeholders:
Internal Program Stakeholders: Departmental
5. School Services
Timeline: Internal Stakeholders
Key Deadline: June, 1998 : FY1999 Budgetary Process Begins
September, 1997
1. Attend Board of Trustees meeting: 5 minute presentation of GPLI;
"pioneering" and present poster to each
2. Attend Management Team meeting: 15 minutes overview presentation
of GPLI and strategic planning
3. At weekly staff meeting: overview of GPLI and "post-it" exercise:
What is your greatest place?
4. Set up October meetings with departments listed above
October, 1997 : Focused Departmental Meetings
1. Development/Market Meeting: focused GPLI conversations, resources
and brainstorming (GPLI-CRB)
2. Education (Museum School, Camp-Ins, Science Demos, Girl Scouts)
focused GPLI-CRB
3. Special Projects (Greatest Places Project Team, Volunteers)
focused GPLE-CRB
4. Theater: focused GPLI-CRB
5. School Services: focused GPLI-CRB
December, 1997: Contact Minnesota: Order 2 full notebooks
February, 1998
1. Full Staff meeting presentation: GP opening report,
and schedule departmental meetings to disseminate to all stakeholders
critical resources necessary for each department to plan and
implement their programming.
- Greatest Places Special Project Team forms (Special Programs Director)
June, 1998
1. All departments have broad-brush programs planned-budgets due:
June 30, 1998
Possible Departmental Programs:
1. Greatest Places Special Project Team:
a. Panel displays enlarged maps with GP marked
b. Collections on display from GP countries, continents
Interactive, inquiry
c. Volunteer Discovery Carts with artifacts from
collection
d. "Line games: Teen volunteers and string game activity 2. Exhibit
Hall Connections:
a. Greatest Places Connection Label in each hall tying hall theme to
Greatest Places: (example) In Dinosaur hall: These are examples of
Texas dinosaurs: here are examples of fossils or dinosaurs found in
Africa (picture or object..whatever collection supports.
II. Education Department:
a. Museum School Greatest Places class
b. Girl Scout and Boy Scout Badge connection
c. Camp-ins around Greatest Places with GP activities
d. Science Demonstration currently featured programmed to add GP link
(example: heat and cryogenics)
III. School Services:
a. Educator connections: Open House, Workshop, Summer Institute,
b. School Program Connections: Add GP link to current offering:
Multicultural Math and Science Treks
Phase Two Title: Communication with External Stakeholders
Program Goals: Target key leaders; how can the FWMSH and Greatest
Places support you, your constituents and create access to these GP
programs that are naturally aligned with your mission?
Critical Date: March, 1998 Budgetary Process: Schools
Proposed External Stakeholders:
1. Statewide: Texas Geography Alliance and Texas State Systemic
Inititative
2. Local Formal Education: Educational Service Center Region 11, Ft.
Worth Independant School District
3. Local Youth Serving Agencies: Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Child-Care
Alliances
Timeline:
August, 1997: Contact TGA: propose November meeting in Austin
September, 1997: Texas SSI/Informal Science Education Action Team: 10
minute presentation: leverage networks.
November, 1997: Meet with representatives from TGA
December, 1997: Initial Meeting local school district and Region 11
Social Studies Director: GP package and opportunities: natural
links
January, 1998: Follow-up TGA: Possibilities for funding and
institute
January, 1998: Meeting with Region 11:
February, 1998 Meeting with Region 11: Communication and program
stategies for 600 local campuses: collaborative workshops and
"getting word out" to schools and site-based decision makers that GP
available in Winter, 1999.
June, 1998: Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts: Establish program links to allow
for summer planning and budgeting.
Potential Outcomes and Project Alliances: Implementation: Summer
98-Summer 99
1. TGA Institute: focus GP
2. Region 11 and FWISD workshops and inservice collaborations
3. Badge programs with Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts
4. Texas SSI/collaborative Science and Social Studies TEKS
conference
Phase Three: Action Plan: Communication: GPLI-Team(Colleen
Blair/Lauri Sparks) Connections: Museum and School Partnerships:
Lauri Sparks Conference Presentations:
1. October, 1998: Present at TCCS (Tx Council for Social Studies
Explore trunk rental
2. October, 1998: Present at TAGE (Tx Alliance for Geographic Ed)
3. March, 1999: Present at GEOTECH:
Museum Presentations: Leadership "Partnerships"
1. Inservice: Utilizing Museums to Teach Geography: Greatest Places:
A Thematic Example: Winter, 1999
2. Teacher Workshop: Greatest Places: February, 1999
3. Educator Open House: Connections to Social Studies: Lesson
Plans
aligned with Texas curriculum.
School-Community Programs:
1. Family Geography Challenge Day: March, 1999
School Districts: Free Exhibit Admission: Possible Family Package
Admission to Greatest Places. Place Activity: Lauri Sparks
2. BriarHill Middle School Partnership Day: Spring, 1999 GPLI Team