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ACT Out Ensemble

A featured part of Claude McNeal Productions (the nationally-acclaimed performance/theatre education company headquartered in Indianapolis), ACT Out is a social-issues improvisational theatre education program that ...

ArtBus

All aboard the ArtBus! This public art tour and field trip experience aims to better connect participants with the visual arts in their community and throughout Indianapolis. ArtBus routes start at your location ...

Arts Integration Training

The Kennedy Center has spent years studying the best ways to help make the arts an integral part of all of our lives. As they have looked at the school experience, their research continues to show that students ...

Bringing Math Story Problems to Life through Puppetry by Adzooks Puppets

This three-hour teacher workshop offers a step-by-step strategy for using hand puppetry to teach students to understand and visualize math story problems. Participants will learn to use simple ball and glove puppet ...

Conducting Fellowship

The Indianapolis Symphonic Choir’s Conducting Fellowship provides one-of-a-kind professional mentorship opportunities for the next generation of choral conductors. Especially focusing on large-scale ...

Culturally Artistic Music Infusion Coaching and Anti-Bullying Showcase by Mark Peay

This teacher training will help you to use music to reach, inspire and connect better to your students. Using strategies focusing on culturally competent teaching and pop culture, you will learn to use music as a ...

Dancing Together: Building Life Skills Through Traditional American Dance by Fiddle 'n Feet

Traditional American dances provide an avenue to build a classroom community. These fun and easy to accomplish dance figures also reinforce the processes of patterning and sequential thinking, a crucial foundation ...

Developing Concentration and Cooperation Skills Through Drama

Researchers and educators agree on the importance of developing students’ abilities to concentrate and cooperate. As well, once a classroom is a safe environment where students feel like they belong, then higher ...

India Culture Comes to You: Dances of India

This hands-on program covers a wide range of multidisciplinary activities. The topics include, but are not limited to, multiculturalism, history, religion, citizenship, geography, music, dance (classical, folk & ...

Internships at Newfields

Newfields is more than a local cultural attraction with an international reputation. It’s also a small city that can help you figure out what you’re going to do in the big, wide world. You know that at ...

Learning Earth's Processes through Movement by Melli Hoppe

Teachers of grades 3-6 will learn how to deepen their students’ understanding of the Earth’s processes using simple choreographic principles such as space, time, force, and motion. *Developed in collaboration ...

Math In Your Feet - For Teachers by Malke Rosenfeld

Math in Your Feet professional development workshops are active and hands-on, empowering teachers to learn and teach the movement, rhythm and math aspects of this program. These workshops are for classroom ...

Moving Hearts, Minds & Bodies through Dance Integration with Kimberli Boyd Part 1

In this interactive workshop, participants examine ways to enhance their teaching and deepen student knowledge and understanding of subject areas such as English/Language Arts, Math, Science, and more through ...

Moving Hearts, Minds & Bodies through Dance Integration with Kimberli Boyd Part 2

In this interactive workshop, participants examine ways to enhance their teaching and deepen student knowledge and understanding of subject areas such as English/Language Arts, Math, Science, and more through ...

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Creative Dramatics for the Youth Educator

Drama and theatre techniques help students learn to move their bodies and use their minds simultaneously while training their voices. Theatre and Drama techniques can teach any curriculum through arts integration ...

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Creative Dramatics for the Youth Educator

Drama and theatre techniques help students learn to move their bodies and use their minds simultaneously while training their voices. Theatre and Drama techniques can teach any curriculum through arts integration ...

Spotlight Choirs

The Arts are a vital part of a balanced, complete education. The Indianapolis Symphonic Choir invites to the stage local high school choirs for participation in Festival of Carols, one of the season’s most ...

The Whole Child: Digging into Reggio-inspired Practice I

Join classroom teacher and Pedagogista, Abby Bucher from the IPS/Butler Lab School #60, as she shares her passion of Reggio-inspired practice with other classroom and special area teachers. In this workshop, she ...

The Whole Child: Digging into Reggio-inspired Practice II

Part 2 of the workshop takes place at the IPS/Butler Lab School 60. During this 3 hour workshop, we will visit with Abby Bucher and learn more about what Reggio-inspired practice can look like in a public school ...

Urban Artisans Internship Program

Urban Artisans is an internship program that aids 16-22 year-olds, with and without disabilities, with the transition from school to the workplace. Under the leadership of our professional teaching artists, interns ...

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