Satori School And Galveston County Historical Museum Form Partnership
The Galveston County Historical Museum is pleased to announce its upcoming partnership with the Satori School for the 2010-11 school year. This unique collaboration combines research-based practices with hands-on activities in order to provide the Satori students the opportunity to study their past and connect it with their present and future learning. Teachers and the museum director, Jodi Wright-Gidley, will work together on integrated units, utilizing artifacts and activities provided by the museum.
“Learning through objects, namely artifacts from the museum’s collection, is going to bring the classroom lessons to life,” said new Satori Director Claire Wilkins. “We are very excited about this unique opportunity for our students.” This program is modeled after several successful museum schools including the Fort Worth Museum School at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History and the New York City Museum School.
“Since the museum remains closed while we await repairs from Hurricane Ike damage, our staff has concentrated on ways we can take the museum out into the public. One of those ways has been to go into local classroom to show artifacts and historic photographs to teach about local history,” said Wright-Gidley.
“This new partnership with Satori is an exciting extension of that idea. Students will learn in a real hands-on setting where they can study historic photographs, see artifacts up-close, do interesting research projects.”
For more information about enrollment at Satori, contact Director Claire Wilkins at 409-763-7022 or visit the Satori website at www.satorischool.net.
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