3Ts (Tune In, Talk More, Take Turns)

In collaboration with Thirty Million Words (TMW), an initiative founded by Dana Suskind at the University of Chicago, Chicago Children’s Museum developed The 3Ts Exhibit to empower caregivers to build their children’s brains by tuning in, talking more, and taking turns (3Ts). The exhibit, based on Suskind’s book, Thirty Million Words: Building a Child’s Brain, is a multi-component exhibit that focuses on different parent-directed engagement strategies — narrate, math talk, book share, and describe— to help build a child’s neuropathways through adult-child conversations. CCM’s goal for the exhibit was to bring the strategies into spaces where child-parent groups congregate and can put the 3Ts into practice.

The exhibit was first presented at Chicago Children’s Museum for a year and then moved to three Chicago Public Library branches: Lozano (Pilsen), Bezazian (Uptown), and West Englewood for another year in 2016. Throughout 2017 and 2018, the 3Ts exhibit was presented at Comer Children’s Hospital, Harold Washington Library, and Woodson Regional Library.

For more information regarding the 3Ts Exhibit, please contact our Vice President of Educational Programming & Experience Development, Natalie Bortoli, at NatalieB@chicagochildrensmuseum.org

3Ts (Talk Them Through It)
Akron, Ohio

Chicago Children’s Museum collaborated with the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health at the University of Chicago to feature the 3Ts components in spaces in Akron, Ohio, and throughout Summit County. For more information regarding the 3Ts Exhibit in Akron, Ohio, please contact Alyssa Figueroa at AFigueroa@seisummit.org