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Cathy McEver

Bureau of Common Sense

Catherine McEver is an independent consultant specializing in program design, staff training, group problem solving, strategic planning and creative documentation. McEver's background in innovative approaches to education has encompassed curriculum design, teacher training and program development, including design of a series of award-winning national demonstration projects for inner-city youth for the Department of Labor, the U.S. Office of Education, and the National Alliance of Business. She honed her skills in
group facilitation, problem solving, and consensus decision making as researcher, writer, and trainer on a series of pioneer projects on problem solving and educational leadership funded by the Carnegie Corporation. Over the past decade, Catherine McEver has applied her writing, graphic, and design skills to creative documentation for museums. The focus ranges from program and exhibit development to museum-wide planning, cross-museum consortia, and symposiums designed to inform the field. McEver is coeditor with Kathleen McLean of the NSF-funded book, Are We There Yet? which examines the concept of best practices in science museum exhibitions, published in 2004 and available through the Association of Science-Technology Centers.