Arab American National Museum

The Arab American National Museum will increase its educational outreach programming about Arabs, Arab Americans, and Islam to regions of southeastern Michigan. The museum will provide comprehensive educational resources and tools, underwrite fieldtrips to the museum, and offer off-site workshops to under-resourced school districts in the targeted regions of the state. Professional development and cultural competency programming will include workshops on educational approaches to culture and diversity for teachers, district leaders, and school administrators; cultural competency workshops for K-12 schools from across metro Detroit and outlying areas; and off-site half-day workshops in K-12 schools in rural and ex-urban areas of Michigan that are isolated from, but adjacent to, large immigrant and refugee communities. A new comprehensive booklet about Arabs and Arab American culture will be made available online, free of charge, to the general public and distributed as part of the museum's free educational resource material for educators.