With my background and training in architectural history, preservation, and education, I am able to deliver a wide variety of customized services for schools, museums, and historic sites.
For historical museums and sites
Visitorship is the key component of a historical museum or site’s mission. Keeping visitors engaged and excited while providing a relevant experience is paramount, especially as it pertains to youth. For historical museums and sites, I can:
- Research and write a thematic script that a docent may implement for school tours (K-12)
- Develop and create interdisciplinary pre- and post-visit materials to support learning before, during, and after the class visit (K-12)
- Develop web-based lesson plans about your site that teachers may download to use in their classroom (K-12)
- Assess your site’s current educational offerings and make recommendations for changes and/or improvements
- Offer professional development for museum educators and docents about architecture, preservation, or other relevant topics
- Develop and write a student activity book or workbook about your site (K-12)
- Create a self-guided interactive guide for young visitors to use with their families (K-12)
- Develop an in-depth educational program involving visits by an educator to the classroom along with visits to your site
- Design weekend family programs and experiences that are hands-on, interactive and fun
For schools and youth groups
If you represent a school or youth group in the New York City tri-state area, and you would like me to come to your school to conduct a 6-, 8-, 10-, or 12-week architecture-based residency for children or a professional development workshop for teachers, you may arrange for my services through one of the following New York City Department of Education Vendor organizations:
- The Center for Architecture Foundation
- Young Audiences NY
- Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
For magazines and publications
My writing, generally geared towards adults, runs the gamut from scholarly, historical reports for local landmarking or state and national-register purposes to general-interest articles about architecture and preservation. I am also interested in writing content for children.