Explore how to honor diverse beliefs and traditions in your classroom.

Join us at the Field Museum on Saturday, December 13, 2025, from 10am-2pm for a professional learning opportunity designed to engage educators in deep content learning with the Museum&rsquo;s collections, with particular emphasis on Ruatepupuke II, the Māori Meeting House.
This program will help educators explore how to approach teaching about diverse beliefs and traditions with care. As a case study, we will look at how to incorporate artifact inquiry when an artifact, like the Māori Meeting House, is not an object but an ancestor.
Participants will
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<li>Understand: How to honor diverse beliefs by incorporating non-Western stories and traditions into instruction.</li>
<li>Do: Role-play responding to student and parent questions about cultures and religious traditions that might be different from their own.</li>
<li>Feel: Prepared to teach about diverse beliefs with care.Registration is open to formal and informal educators of all levels.</li>
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Illinois Educators will earn 4 hours of Professional Development for attending this workshop. Registration will remain open until Friday, December 5, 2025, or until full.
Please note that this also is that last date that we can honor requests for parking vouchers for this event. Request a parking voucher <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdXEiJjj0AcTUS1SJupvOimCfudZclNO-xzLaHLa2aOUPfzyA/viewform?usp=publish-editor">here</a>.
All attendees will receive a copy of the newest edition of Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera.

This program is made possible with the generous support of Lilly Endowment, Inc. and the Cyrus Tang Foundation.&nbsp;

Acknowledgments

Cyrus Tang Foundation

Lilly Endowment

Honoring Belief and Heritage in the Classroom

Accessibility: Our goal is to make all programming financially accessible without asking participants to individually request assistance. Please use the promo code 40OFFTEACHERS to receive 40% off the full ticket price if assistance makes it possible for you to attend this event.

Program questions? Contact Samantha Chapleau, <a href="mailto:schapleau@fieldmuseum.org">schapleau@fieldmuseum.org</a>.

Supported by a three-year grant from the Cyrus Tang Foundation, the&nbsp;Field Museum Connections: AANHPI Stories &amp; the TEAACH Act&nbsp;project seeks to address this gap by partnering with local Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities, cultural organizations, and educators to co-create PreK-12 learning experiences and programs that reflect authentic, multifaceted perspectives centering AANHPI communities. We aim to equip Illinois educators to meet the requirements of the TEAACH Act, educate young people, foster greater cultural empathy, and empower community voices in the telling of their own histories.

Field Museum Connections: AANHPI Stories & the TEAACH Act Workshops

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Saturday, December 13

Field Museum Connections: AANHPI Stories & the TEAACH Act Workshops

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Saturday, December 13