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Welcome to the National Park Service’s Interpretive Development Program website. This site is designed to aid all interpreters, no matter who you work for or where you are in your career, with your on-going professional growth and development. The profession of interpretation is continuously evolving and this site will help you keep track of the trends and developments in interpretation.

New to the site? Visit the “About Interpretation” and the "Getting Started" tabs above to discover how the Interpretive Development Program can help you.

 

Latest News:

15 May 2012 6:02 pm

Use the new Online Review System (ORS) to submit products for peer review. (NOTE: Peer Review is only open to NPS employees). We are excited about this new system which has been developed in partnership with the...

15 May 2012 5:59 pm

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Please join us for a Spring update on our training initiatives -- we will offer the update on May 16 and again May 17...

15 May 2012 3:37 pm

Digital Media for Interpreters-- coming in July -- an exciting virtual classroom course (no travel!). This IDP class was offered twice...

26 Feb 2012 5:00 pm

Recently the Office of Communications launched a new Civil War website, thefirst of the new subject sites scheduled for development within nps.gov.

The soft launch was announced to...

08 Nov 2011 6:13 pm

The idea of creating an interpretive field school at Stephen T. Mather Training Center and Harpers Ferry National Historical Park originated with the late David Larsen during his time as the National Park Service Training...

Videos:

Working with Diverse Youth

This training video uses the experiences of participants from the Latin American Youth Center's 2nd Nature program to explore best practices of working with diverse youth. A companion...

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CCRP-Patrick-Gonzalez

In May 2011, Patrick Gonzalez, the National Park Service's Climate Change Scientist helped a group of interpreters wrap their heads around the ins and outs of Climate Change during a workshop...

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