Dear Colleague,

Thank you for your interest in Mind in the Making (MITM).

Please consider the following as you prepare your application:

The application is due on July 31, 2015. Applicants will be advised of acceptance by September 1, 2015.

Participants will be required to pay their own travel expenses, lodging and food. The Institute will provide the materials and training free of charge.

The two locations are Boston Children’s Museum in Boston on October 6-8, 2015 or The New Children's Museum in San Diego, CA on November 3-5, 2015.

This is a three-day train-the-trainer Institute, and participants will be responsible for delivering the 16-hour series to frontline staff over the next year.

Visit www.mindinthemaking.org for free resources and additional information.

Please answer the following questions. We don’t expect long answers, but we do need to better understand your museum or library and its ways of working within your community.

We look forward to the possibility of working and learning with you.

Ellen and Erin
Ellen Galinsky and Erin Ramsey
For Mind in the Making

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* 1. Museum or Library Name:

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* 2. Institution Address:

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* 3. Street:

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* 4. City, State & Zip Code:

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* 5. Contact Person:

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* 6. Title:

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* 7. Address:

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* 8. Phone:

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* 9. Email:

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* 10. By participating in this learning opportunity, you will be learning about how to promote executive function skills in yourself as well as in your customer-facing staff and, thus, in the children and families you serve. We understand that museums and libraries have a great deal of choices about professional development. Why do you want to bring the Seven Essential Life Skills to your museum or library?

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* 11. How do you currently share knowledge of brain development and promote executive function skills in your museum or library?

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* 12. The Mind in the Making team at the Families and Work Institute (FWI) finds that leadership is a key component of the success of this initiative. Please describe how the leadership of your institution will support the implementation of the Seven Essential Life Skills in your institution and in your community.

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* 13. Please list whom you want to attend the Institute (maximum two people per applicant institution). Briefly describe their experience facilitating learning in adults. How do their positions lend themselves to offering professional development within your institution and your community (time, expertise, etc.)?

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* 14. By attending this train-the-trainer model of professional development, you will be required to go back and train your internal staff. There will be 16 hours’ worth of content to be delivered. Briefly describe your current professional development model. What is your plan for delivering the 16 hours of MITM for your internal staff, and how many people do you plan to train?

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* 15. In order to better understand whom you will be impacting within your organization, please describe the internal structure of your staffing. Please also include information about volunteers versus salaried staff.

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* 16. One of the goals of this project is to increase collaboration among museums and libraries within communities. Please list any possibilities you expect to have to engage your community counterparts (in other community museums and libraries) in this professional development opportunity for their staff. What is your vision for sharing what you will learn?

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* 17. FWI wants to work with museums and libraries that have plans for the sustainability of the Seven Essential Life Skills. Please describe your plans to ensure this endeavor will be sustained, expanded and impactful—have results—in your museum or library.

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* 18. Are there other innovations you’ve created in your institution or community endeavors that you want us to know about? Please describe anything else we should know about your institution and your community.

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* 19. Are there any questions, issues or concerns you have that you want us to be aware of and consider as we plan for the Institute?

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* 20. There will be two Institutes offered. I prefer:

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