Students at several IPS schools lack access to the arts, including theatre programming. Asante Children’s Theatre (ACT) has developed a program to supplement IPS schools that were identified as lacking sufficient arts programming. ACT will select one site, possibly Louis B. Russell #48, to pilot a variation of their Prep4Life curriculum. This new initiative will be designed to stimulate reading, writing, and the creation of original work through the use of storytelling and spoken word.