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.
Apply Now
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 2026 cohort closed August 31.
Apply NowKey Dates
- August 3, 2026Applications Open
- August 31, 2026Applications Close
- September 10, 2026Applicants Notified
- October 6, 2026Program Begins
Program Schedule
The program will be held virtually across four 60-minute video call sessions.
- October 6, 20264pm PST / 7pm EST
- October 20, 20264pm PST / 7pm EST
- November 3, 20264pm PST / 7pm EST
- November 17, 20264pm PST / 7pm EST
Questions about the program? Contact us.
Ready to explore
Example Education Tapestry Experiences
- The Lincoln Memorial — Step into History at the Lincoln Memorial: A Tribute to Unity and Freedom — Take a virtual tour of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., and explore the legacy of the 16th President of the United States. Get a close-up…
- Mount Rushmore National Memorial — Look Eye to Eye with the Towering Faces of Mount Rushmore — Explore Mount Rushmore National Memorial through the stories of the many communities whose cultural traditions have shaped this place and continue to…
- The USS Utah Memorial — Dive into the Forgotten Ship of Pearl Harbor — Explore above and below the water at this WWII memorial to learn the stories of the USS Utah and her survivors. Experience the detailed 3D model of…
- George Wythe House — Walk Through the Historic Home of George Wythe — Step into the 18th Century to explore the historical home of George Wythe—signer of the Declaration of Independence, delegate to the Constitutional…
- Sites of Dinétah | Crow Canyon — Experience the Navajo Homeland, Where Living History is Carved into Stone — Crow Canyon, nestled in Dinétah, the ancestral Navajo homeland, houses an impressive array of petroglyphs that are deeply rooted in Navajo traditions…
- Sue-meg State Park — Discover Yurok Traditions at Sue-meg State Park — Step into Sumêg Village and encounter a living Yurok cultural landscape where redwood houses, canoes, baskets, and ceremony reflect centuries of…
- Totem Bight State Historical Park — Experience Tlingit and Haida Living Traditions At Totem Bight — Step into Totem Bight State Historical Park and experience totem poles that carry Tlingit and Haida stories. In the experience, you will hear from…
- ‘Ō roŋo & The Mata Ŋā Rahu Petroglyphs — Discover ‘Ō roŋo in the Rapanui language — Vist the ceremonial village of ‘Ō roŋo and hear from community members from the island of Rapa Nui. Travel to parts of the site inaccessible to…
- Rapa Nui (Easter Island) — World Heritage Carved in Stone and Spirit — Journey to the island of Rapa Nui also known as Easter Island which was settled by Polynesian seafarers a millennium ago. Listen to local community…
- Cliff Palace — Explore North America's Largest Cliff Dwelling — Take a virtual tour of Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park. This spectacular site was constructed with sandstone, mortar and wood beams by the…
- Great Mosque of Djenné — Step Into the World's Largest Mud-Brick Mosque — Explore Mali's Great Mosque of Djenné, where adobe architecture reaches skyward, embodying Islamic traditions and community resilience. On this…
- Exchange Sewala and Shiv Mandir — Exploring Hindu Heritage in the Heart of Trinidad and Tobago — Step into the Exchange Sewala and Shiv Mandir, a leepayed temple at the heart of an Indo-Trinidadian community. The earthen walls and raised reliefs…