Drama For Schools - 2018–2021
Arts-Based Professional Learning
From 2017 to 2020, I worked with Drama for Schools to design and implement trainings in drama-based pedagogy (DBP) throughout Texas, South Australia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Check out the lessons I have published on the DBI network website!
Participants create statues at a summer institute for Clear Creek Independent School District (TX) in August 2018.
Participants create an embodied tableau at a workshop at the University of South Australia in July 2018.
Original Workshops Developed and Presented with DFS
Building DBP Capacity through Peer Mentorship
Illuminating Impact through Arts Advocacy
Interrogating Power through Drama-Based Learning
What is Drama-Based Pedagogy?
Group mural created during 2019 Advanced Summer Institute in Austin, TX.
Summer Institute 2020
Online Learning Through the Arts
In summer 2020, I led a small group of teaching artists in developing DFS’s first Online Summer Institute. This 4-day training focused on translating embodied learning to virtual spaces. We utilized Zoom, Prezi, and the Google Suite to offer 16 hours of dynamic synchronous and asynchronous engagement for educators across the US.
You can view the first of six Prezi presentations that I wrote, designed, and constructed for the DFS Online Summer Institute here.
Exploring Adjectives through Statues
Participant micro-teach exercise during 2020 Online Summer Institute.
“I notice that I do not feel ‘Zoom fatigue’ after these sessions. So I wonder if DBP might actually be more crucial to a remote/online learning model than an in-person one? …. Could DBP combat that brain/body disconnect that we feel when trying to be in ‘virtual community’?”
— DFS Summer Institute Participant, 2020