Museum/organizational practice
Challenge the problematic legacy of museums, including issues of power, privilege, and colonialism
Promote accessibility, diversity, inclusion, and equity in museums
Understand how and what people learn in museums, and how current research informs their own professional practice
Articulate strategies for engaging museums with communities
Position museums as one part of a larger community ecosystem
Critical thinking skills
Think critically (analyze information, make an argument, and support an argument with logical and compelling evidence)
Problem solve (identify relevant problems, ideate a range of potential solutions, pick one solution and implement it)
Persist in the face of new challenges (when things don’t go as planned, in situations where they don’t have control, when they first fail)
Iterate (accept feedback, revise their ideas/work, let go of things that don’t work, ask for help when they need it)
Professional identity
Collaborate (listen to others, negotiate goals and deliverables, support others)
Communicate their ideas clearly, orally and in writing, in planned and spontaneous contexts
Continually assess their own strengths and weaknesses, and build strategies for leveraging their strengths