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Professional Development

Teaching as a Performing Art (TAPA)

24th Street Theatre’s TEACHING AS A PERFORMING ART Professional Development workshops are like no other, allowing educators to train on the stage of a professional theatre where the power of live music, lighting, and sound is used to help Teachers experience themselves as artists! We don’t just do PD, we inspire!

Professional Development At Its Finest

Acting is the art of persuasion, speaking, and listening. Engagement before information is one of our basic philosophies. Team members who discover themselves as performers have the power to use speaking as an opportunity for deeper connections and collaboration. Encouraging creativity and outside-the-box thinking make the workplace a constant opportunity for inventiveness. An “ensemble” who can adapt, improvise and create in the moment is a team full of imaginative and visionary professionals.

Guaranteed to make you remember why you became a teacher!

Teaching As a Performing Art is an excellent professional development opportunity specifically for educators, giving them strategies to integrate basic performance techniques in the everyday classroom. This inspiration makes their job more rewarding and creative, while creating students that are enthusiastic learners. Learning to think of teaching as a performing art as not a ‘set aside’ curriculum time, but rather as an approach that puts art making and constructivism to use in every aspect of a teacher’s day is a powerful tool. And literally sharing or mirroring excellent teaching strategies with each other is an important part of what we present.

Imparts effective teaching strategies through art making in theatre

  • Integrate basic performance techniques in the everyday classroom to make your job more rewarding and creative

  • Help students become better and more enthusiastic learners

  • Teaching as a Performing Art has been taught across the country and the world

Interested? Email EDUCATION@24THSTREET.ORG or call 213-745-6516 to learn more and book today!


A Leader in Arts Education

Best, Most practical, Most applicable, Most entertaining workshop I’ve ever attended!
— Janice Schrader, 10 years teaching
Enthralling! You have pushed me into a higher level of teaching!
— Marta Acosta, 30 years experience
It was fantastic and renewing!
— Alaine Schlechte, 18 years teaching
Confirms what I truly believe about teaching!
— Margaret Robinson, 23 years teaching
Great! It was fun – like teaching and learning should be!
— Brenda, 9 years teaching
Workshop was excellent from beginning to end!
— Joyce Stohlmann, 4 years teaching
You two are inspiring!
— Debra Stone, 2 years teaching
Wow! We can have fun in the classroom!
— Sharon Connick, 6 years teaching
I wish it was longer!
— Melia Hartmann, 1 year teaching
Wonderful workshop! You both make learning fun!
— Marcia Pottinger, 16 years teaching
Thank you for giving us permission to try this in our rooms!
— Ann Bergman, 20 years teaching