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National Exhibition Month 2009

Join CES in a nationwide campaign to promote and celebrate exhibitions as a preferred form of student assessment!

In and around the month of May, schools and support organizations across the country will engage in activities that make their exhibition work public and advocate for the use of exhibitions in their local contexts.

To see the complete list of schools who participated in 2008, and their activities, please click here.

What You Can Do

Learn more about Exhibitions from a number of CES resources

See our participation guide for a set of suggested activities and to determine the level at which your school or organization can confidently participate.

Please complete this short online survey to tell us more about exhibitions at your school or organization and how you plan to participate in the campaign.

Download a Fact Sheet on National Exhibition Month PDF that you can print out and use with parents, community members, media, or others interested in the campaign.

View a list of participating schools and activities from National Exhibition Month 2008

Media Attention

The 2008 campaign received considerable media attention, with schools and/or exhibitions appearing in both national and local newspaper articles, education media and websites, and blogs. Among them were:

Principal Leadership, September 2008: Exhibiting Authentic Achievement

Education Week, June 2008: Showing What They Know

Providence Journal, May 2008: State’s graduation criteria called ‘wave of the future’

Huffington Post - posted by Dan Brown, May 2008: Beyond "The Big Test": A Brilliant Idea to Improve Schools

Boston Globe, May 2008: Students soar with "essential questions"

Edutopia Magazine, April 2008: Command Performance: Creating Accountability That Works

Endorsements

The National Exhibition Month Honorary Committee is a group of educators, policy makers, academics, and community leaders who support CES’s agenda to promote exhibitions as a preferred form of student assessment.

Contact

For more information on National Exhibition Month, please contact Brett Bradshaw, bbradshaw@essentialschools.org.


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