University of Washington

For its "Let's Talk" program, University of Washington will bring together museum professionals who are engaged in facilitating, evaluating, and studying dialogue programs in STEM and history-based institutions to analyze and synthesize what is known about dialogue programs, convene a cross-discipline symposium, and develop and share models and resources. The resulting findings and discussion on dialogue as an educational strategy will inform the development of a framework and resources to be shared with other institutions to further the museum field's understanding of the emerging practice of dialogue-based programs. It will also increase the capacity of current and future museum professionals in planning, implementing, evaluating, and studying dialogue programs that effectively engage broad audiences around significant societal topics.