Build deeper understanding
Build deeper understanding and stronger memory connections through immersive exploration of significant locations, buildings, and monuments
Why Tapestry
Why Tapestry?
Tapestry supports contextualized, place-based learning by connecting concepts, historical events, and key subjects to meaningful real-world locations.
With Tapestry, students can:
Practice perspective-taking
Practice perspective-taking by engaging with cultures and experiences different from their own through multiple voices and perspectives
Strengthen critical thinking
Strengthen critical thinking and global competence through primary sources, lived experiences, and spatial navigation of new places
In the classroom
Tapestry in the Classroom
Tapestry is designed to be flexible, accessible, and easy to use across grade levels and subject areas.
Each experience guides students through a real historical or cultural site, combining immersive 3D exploration with narration, local voices, images, documents, and other media. Teachers can use Tapestry as a full-class activity, a student-led investigation, or a springboard for deeper research and discussion.
Tapestry works well for:
Virtual field trips
Take students to meaningful places they may never be able to visit in person.
Whole-class exploration
Use a shared place or story to introduce a topic, guide discussion, or build background knowledge.
Small group analysis
Invite students to compare voices, sources, locations, and perspectives.
Project-based learning
Use Tapestry as a starting point for research, reflection, creative response, or presentation.
Independent inquiry
Let students explore at their own pace and follow the people, places, and questions that interest them most.
Professional learning
Tapestry Certified Educator Program
The Tapestry Certified Educator Program is a professional learning opportunity for innovative K–12 classroom educators.
The program is designed to build teacher confidence and expertise in using Tapestry in the classroom, enhancing learner engagement, creating authentic connections between curriculum and the real world, and increasing student global competence.
What the Program Offers
- Guided training in using Tapestry to design engaging, standards-aligned learning experiences
- Practical strategies for integrating Tapestry content into grade-level standards and subject areas
- Opportunities to design and pilot classroom-ready lessons in collaboration with CyArk team members and developers
- Opportunities to share educator perspectives through the Tapestry for Teachers blog
- Potential to earn professional development clock hours for recertification
- Recognition as an official Tapestry Certified Educator
Why Apply?
Beyond Certification: Leadership and Impact
Pilot educators will serve as CyArk ambassadors, helping share best practices with colleagues while shaping the future of educator-facing materials and tools. Participants will collaborate to create and refine resources and help ensure the program can scale for future cohorts.
Designed for the Academic Year
The pilot program is intentionally aligned with the school calendar and will include a mix of synchronous and asynchronous collaboration so it does not interfere with other professional duties.
Innovative educators interested in better connecting learners to their shared global heritage are encouraged to apply, nominate someone, or sign up for future alerts.
Applications for the inaugural cohort open in August 2026.
Questions about the program? Contact us.
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