Teacher Development

Workshops for teachers/directors/educators may be arranged through the district and can be arranged for one school, multiple schools, across the district, or across several districts.

They may be arranged as 1.5-hour sessions or 3-hour sessions.

The average cost of a professional development session is $125 per hour per facilitator. Examples of our offerings may be seen below:

    • How to cut Shakespeare: finding the through-line and keeping your audience

    • Dynamic Staging for Classic Texts

    • Get the Audience Close! Blocking In-the-Round and Thrust with Shakespeare

    • Actions, Pronouns, and Names!

    • Oh Crap, there’s a dance! Creating theme-appropriate choreography for Shakespeare party scenes

    • Music In Shakespeare: How to work with songs in the text

    • Classic & Safe Stage Combat & Resources

    • The Feelings Matter More: How to worry less about the audience “getting every word”

    • Shakespeare’s Fools: How to Find the Funny in Every Scene

    • Shakespeare Nerds: Want to really learn about scansion?

    • Musical Theatre Choreography

    • Building a HUGE musical number

    • Planning a Musical: Form Auditions to Your First Rehearsal

    • How Do I Musical? Breaking Down the Process of Building a Great Musical

    • Simple Musical Theatre Revue: How-To

    • The Ensemble Can Be a Star

    • How to Teach Contemporary Musical Theatre Vocals

    • Dynamic directing: The jump-in and jump-out approach to scene work

    • Building the Confident Young Actor

    • How to Get Actors to Use their Arms & Legs

    • Effective Rehearsal Warm-ups for Mind & Body

    • Building a Huge Musical Number

    • How to use EVERYONE

    • Bringing Special Needs Students to Your Stage

    • From Goals to Lessons: Building curriculum that WORKS

    • Making the Standards work for your program

    • Growing Your Arts Programs

    • How to Foster a Welcoming and Inclusive Program

    • Yes, They Can! Giving Creative Confidence to Students with Special Needs

    • Marketing your Program

    • How To Design your Posters

    • Train Your Student Marketing & Design Team

    • Leverage student power to promote your show

    • Boost-ing Your Program: How to Foster a Positive Booster Organization

    • Peeling the Onion to make Table Work WORK

    • How to Cut Your UIL OAP

    • The Puzzle: Or, How I Learned to Stop Obsessing and Love UIL OAP (for the most part)

Want to bring Impact Arts to your school?

Please fill out this form to let us know what you need and what questions you have. We will be in touch to schedule your session(s)!