Workshop Opportunities

Check out the the free symposium for acting teachers this coming Monday Dec 8. The lineup of speakers is truly amazing... and it's FREE...

Acting Teachers of America Symposium


And this is an entire SERIES of FREE workshops/PDs for educators that you can choose from at the Museum of the City of New York. Lots of great historical NYC resources here...
Free PDs at Museum of the City of New York

Winter Performances

Below is a schedule of upcoming student performances from our talented Theatre TA team:

December 12, 2:30pm ... Audrey Nedderman's elementary afterschool students perform.  PS 40, Jamaica Queens.

December 13, 10am ... Julia Grob's Lifestories ensemble hosts an "Open Class" with performances.  UAP office.

December 16, 7pm ... Kira Neel's HS afterschool students perform.  Newcomers HS, LIC Queens.

December 18, 6pm ... Dawn Crandell's elementary afterschool students perform.  PS 277, S. Bronx.

December 19, 2:30pm ... Michelle Slonin's HS Studio students perform.  Facing History School, Midtown.

December 22, 3pm ... Kira Neel's HS afterschool students perform.  Newcomers HS, LIC Queens.

Break legs!

December Reminders

A few key reminders:

Unit 2 outlines should all be in by now.  Start looking at your curriculum for the rest of the year, especially in light of the new Essential Question you created at the TA PD last week.

Future Theatre Dept. PDs will be Feb 6th and April 3rd.  Mark your calendars now.

Datafish Training meetings are coming up.   Choose one date to attend (Dec 4th @ 6:30 or Dec 10th @ 6:30) and come in to learn the new timesheet system.  Contact Hillary with any questions.

Our new Evidence of Student Learning document will emailed out from Phillip in the coming weeks.  We should start thinking about it NOW.   Begin by identifying which students you'd like to to highlight in your document (Struggling, Achieving and Excelling). Remember you need to only choose one student for each of the 3 categories, along with one short example of their work.  This work can be a video clip from you flip camera or a piece of writing such as a script.   So start identifying your 3 students now.  Dan will be in touch with you soon to start building the document.