We Educate People About Education
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Your Baby's Amazing Brain
The exhibition, Your Baby’s Amazing Brain is a 48-foot, traveling, walk-thru, interactive mobile exhibition designed to showcase the importance of developing minds in babies, infants and toddlers from birth up to age 5. |
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Introducing Debbie Schaeffer-Jacobs
Debbie Schaefer-Jacobs is curator of history of education and childhood material culture, America on Stone 19th Century Prints and the domestic visual arts in the Division of Home and Community Life at the National Museum of American History. She began working with Smithsonian collections in 1977, striving to make them digitally accessible. She has also curated collections in numerous exhibitions, including Many Voices, One Nation; Giving in America: Who Pays for Education; Girlhood, Its Complicated!; American Democracy; and the current exhibition celebrating America 250: In Pursuit.
Debbie has lectured for numerous academic associations including the History of Education Society, Organization for Educational Historians, the Organization of American Historians, and Country School Association of America, where she is also an officer on their board. She is a contributing author to major publications: The Promise of a Nation: Commemorating 250 Years of Patriotism, Resilience, and Aspirations from the National Collection; Smithsonian Civil War, Inside the National Collection; Many Voices, One Nation: Material Culture…; and Smithsonian American Women. She has written pieces for the Museum of Teaching and Learning’s newsletter and the National Museum of American History’s website and is a frequent journalistic source on the history of education and on childhood material culture. Debbie will be presenting two talks at MOTAL on Sunday, May 24th focusing on toys and action figures in education and Black history. She will also sign copies of The Promise of a Nation, a retrospective of the United States featuring historical objects from the Smithsonian's collection. 🗓️Sunday, May 24, 2026 🕰️5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. 📌Museum of Teaching and Learning 247 E. Amerige Avenue Fullerton, CA 92832 Dinner and beverages and will be served. The museum is in a nonprofit center at the corner of Lemon, across from the Monkey Business Café. Parking is in the First Lutheran Church lot at the west side of our place. Tickets are now on sale! Click on the link below to purchase your ticket(s). $50 for one and $75 for two. All proceeds benefit MOTAL. We educate people about education.
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Funded Project Announcement Video:
Your Baby's Amazing Brain 
The high-tech mobile museum
Your Baby's Amazing Brain 
MOTAL Creates Traveling Exhibitions
that are leased by institutions such as museums, libraries, schools, and universities. If you would like more information A Class Action:
The Grassroots Struggle for School Desegregation in California Traveling Exhibition 
We also have a Hanging Version!
Two Roads, One Journey: Education in China and the U.S Traveling Exhibition 
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