In-School Artist Residency Programs
Bring SteppingStone Theatre to your classroom with an in-school residency and enliven any subject using the tools and techniques of theatre arts.
SteppingStone’s In-School Artsit Residency Program provides teachers and schools with an exciting interdisciplinary learning experience. All of our residency models are designed to encourage a collaborative implementation process that supports student learning and connects with classroom content.
Classroom teachers and/or coordinators meet with SteppingStone Education staff to collaboratively implement programming using the following steps:
- Initial meeting to plan learning goals, essential questions, standards alignment,
and methods of assessment. - Mid-way reflection meeting to evaluate process and progress.
- Final evaluation meeting to review assessment, plan follow up or extension
opportunities if applicable, and assess the arts-residency process and
overall experience.
All of our models are flexible in terms of duration, timing, and outcomes. Some residencies last five days and some last all year.
These models serve as springboards for collaborative, arts-infused curriculum and program design. For teachers who do not have time to plan in detail, but want a meaningful arts experience in their classrooms, our teaching artists can also implement our own curriculum in lieu of a collaborative design.
Let these models serve as a foundation through which we can work together to support you with the power and magic of theatre.
For more information, or to book a In-School Artsit Residency, please contact Maggie Smith, 651-225-9265.
- K–6 Models
- K–12 Models
- 6–12 Models
- Produce it!
- Coaching for Teachers
K–6 Models
Create-A-Play™
Students create their own play using a collaborative process of improvisation and story-telling to synthasize their knowledge and understandings of a theme, big idea, or other content-specifice learning goal.
The final play is often performed for peers, parents, and/or the community.
Literacy Live™
This model takes the most powerful learning activities and teaching strategies from theatre education to develop comprehension skills by bringing language into action.
Reading comes to life through hands-on theatrical explorations and activities.
Ties to Curriculum™
Through the use of unscripted drama, improvisation, role drama, narrated creative play, and re-enactments, students explore content from any subject .
Teachers often use this residency to deepend and differentiate learning across the content areas.
K–12 Models
Through the Stage Door™
Bring your class on a field trip to see a mainstage production and activate their learning through a hands-on residency, either on-site or back in the regular classroom.
SteppingStone Theatre's professional productions are relevant, standards-aligned plays performed by your students' peers.
Residencies consist of theatre games, exercises, and performance-creation to link students' experiences of audience and artist.
Youth Leadership, Bully-Free & Community Connections
Using theatre games and activities from a wide range of sources, students participate in a process-based residency in which they develop empathy and leadership skills, explore community issues, and practice mediation and creative problem solving.
6–12 Models
Process-Based Theatre Residency
Curriculum is explored and analyzed through hands-on theatre arts teaching strategies including role-drama, improvisation, expressive movement, and spoken-word poetry.
Performance-Based Theatre Residency
Academic content and themes are brought to the evaluation and synthesis stage through the creation of a performance.
Students work with an artist/mentor to collaboratively devise an original performance.
Produce It!
Sometimes you want to put on a play with your students, but you don't have the time or expertise to do it all yourself. A "Produce It" residency provides an opportunity for your students to experience many facets of theatrical production.
In these programs, you'll select a play—anything from Shakespeare to Cinderella, from SteppingStone Theatre's scripts or one of your choosing—then our artist or artists will cast, direct, and produce the play at your school!
High-Impact Strategies:
Coaching for Classroom Teachers
A "High-Impact Teaching Strategies" residency is a professional development opportunity where classroom teachers can experiment with and explore applications of arts learning through a supportive, coaching model.
These programs provide educators with tools, techniques, theory, and skills from theatre arts to apply to learners in any discipline.
Click here for more information on Coaching for Classroom Teachers.
