Discusses the activities of the Education Department at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, including the local education outreach program and the Partners in Education program promoting school-community partnerships. (SR)

Discusses expressive movement, a rudimentary, exploratory, and process-oriented way of movement that is appropriate for and beneficial to the training of actors, and that can be employed as a mode of kinesthetic/dramatic expression by theatre educators. Notes reasons for using expressive movement in theatre education; discusses teacher's role;…

Notes that the 1994 Educate America Act included the arts as one of the eight core subjects, suggesting that they were no longer a curricular extra but an area of study as important as math, science, or any other subject. Asks 17 educators what they think will be the most important issue facing K-12 education during the next five years. (SG)

Presents essays entitled "Safe Spaces,""This Is Our Part,""Theatre and Community,""Real People Performing in Real Time,""Express One's Heart,""The Lessons of Popular Culture,""The Context of a Play,""The Human Condition,""A Need for New Tools,""Defiantly…

Describes the design features of five schools and a performing arts center that received recognition from the TASB/TASA School Architecture Awards. Each entry contains photos, project information, and floor plans. (GR)

With the current education climate so focused on accountability, teachers need to ensure that their teaching practices are supported by today's content-specific standards. To meet this need, "A Comprehensive Guide to Readers Theatre" shows not only how to implement Readers Theatre in the classroom but also how to use it to meet current literacy…

This booklet is designed to assist administrators and teachers in planning, developing, and implementing K-12 theater instruction. The materials presented in the booklet are intended to aid local school systems in planning local curricula, developing a local philosophy, defining local goals, evaluating the extent to which the goals are contained…

Discussing the inadequate support that theater receives in elementary and secondary schools, the author explores the value of theatrical processes in teaching across the curriculum. Describes three levels of experience that are vital for learning, stating that teachers must do a better job of using theater as an educational tool. (GEA)

Selected and crafted from presentationsn at the Second World Congress of the International Drama/Theatre and Education Association (IDEA) held in Brisbane, Australia, July 1995, the essays in this book tell stories of using drama and theatre in a broad range of cultural contexts, but all with the same aim of real-life enfranchisement. The…

This performance guide is designed for teachers to use with students before and after a performance of "A Village Fable, In the Suicide Mountains," A one-act musical play based on the novella "In The Suicide Mountains" by John Gardner, and presented by The Coterie Theatre. The guide, called a "Cuesheet," contains…

This performance guide is designed for teachers to use with students before and after a performance of "The Book of Miracles," by David S. Craig and Robert Morgan. The guide, called a "Cuesheet," contains seven activity sheets for use in class, addressing: (1) What Happens in "The Book of Miracles?" (introducing the…

This performance guide is designed for teachers to use with students before and after a performance of "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck, adapted by Warren Frost and dramatized for the Kennedy Center by Nick Olcott. It is in the form of a Director's Notebook--a scrapbook/journal of clippings, memos, lists, illustrations, notes, and other…

Offers guidelines for writing songs that can be an integral, not merely accessory, component of children's theatre. (PD)

Lists 12 items from "Resources in Education" on programs for the handicapped in art, dance, drama, and music. (JMF)

Presents a summary of a study that led to the identification and profile of eight model sites for development of theater education professionals. Includes these sites: Alliance Theatre (Atlanta); Lincoln Center Institute (New York City); Metro Theatre Company (St. Louis); and Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning through the Arts (District of…