VAM Working for You-Reaching Out to Teachers

VAM's New Website Provides the Perfect Opportunity for You to Reach Virginia's Teachers

VAM continues to build our relationship with the Virginia Department of Education. Our main goal is to raise awareness with schools and teachers about the critical community support that museums can offer.

In the next couple of weeks, we will be a part of the upcoming Annual Conference of Virginia Social Studies Educators happening in Roanoke on November 2-3 and Virginia Education Association conference taking place November 16-17 in Richmond.

Teachers who visit our booth at the conference will have a chance to try out our new Member Directory to find museums in their region that offer educational programming. A link to this new Member Directory will also be available in DOE resources that go out to teachers regularly.

So now we need you to Help us help you by updating your museum's profile on our new website by November 1st! Some tips on how to do this follow. If you need any help at all, please contact the office, at 804-358-3170.

Your first step is to log in to your personal account on our new site. If you don't see your company's profile as a "tab" in your member dashboard, it just means you haven't been made an administrator for your museum yet--we can do that for you! Call us! 804-358-3170.

Once you have that administrative access, you will see both a "Company" tab and "Profile" tab in your member dashboard.

While we want you to customize each profile with a logo or photograph, description, social media links, etc., focus on your organization's profile first. Make sure all the information about your museum is correct, from the Region of the state (this is how teachers will most likely search for you) to your contact phone number. A photo (or logo of the museum) is key--it will be the first thing teachers see in the Member Directory that makes you stand out from other sites.

Next, fill in the Focus of Your Collection and Educational Offerings to better share your organization's mission and goals. We hope this additional information will help K-12 educators, other institutions, and public learn more about you.

We want our work with DOE and Virginia's teachers to be as effective as possible. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any suggestions for how we can boost our teacher outreach!