Penny Caywood is back by popular demand after her wildly successful summer Drama Boot Camp intensive where one teacher said it was the best professional development course she had taken in 29 years of teaching!

Penny will open up her bag of tricks to show you how to create theatre in your classroom – these four classes can be taken as 4 part workshop totally 15 hours of instruction time or can be taken individually for 3.5 hours each.

These workshops will create an engaging and fun learning community among teachers and teaching artists to integrate drama into all curriculum areas to make subjects come alive. These courses are designed for elementary educators.  First-hand involvement allows time to test ideas and build them into workable, practical units. Throughout the classes, teachers attend classes whose content can easily be adapted for a range of grade levels in the elementary classroom. 

THE CLASSES*

FROM PAGE TO STAGE
When:  Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 4:00pm-7:30pm
Where: Highland Park Elementary, 1738 E 2700 S
Cost: SLCSD $30.00 / Other Districts $35.00 - includes materials and snacks
Registration Open: Click here to register online now
This workshop teaches methods to make literature fun, physical and active for students. Teachers learn how to take literature from page to stage, which encourages an active relationship with a book through voice, body, and imagination. Teachers will bring a story alive using the creative techniques that story drama provides. Teachers take a ride through popular folktales and children’s literature to explore ways to create their own drama-based lesson plans. Plot, character, given circumstances, intentions, and improvisation basics are explored through “on your feet” exploration. This workshop includes techniques to help students take ownership of the events that propel them through the action of any play they perform. Story drama curriculum helps students expand their imaginations, improve listening and communication, and enhance problem solving and cooperative learning skills.  Please bring a book you are interested in starting to adapt.

EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT COMPUTERS BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK
When:  Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 4:00pm-7:30pm
Where: Marriott Library, University of Utah
Cost: SLCSD $30.00 / Other Districts $35.00 - includes materials and snacks
Registration Open: Click here to register online now                        
From those who don’t know how to turn a computer on without breaking into a cold sweat to those who are techno savvy, this class is for you.  The first part of this class will be learning to use the internet for free and inexpensive resources for music and drama.  The second part will explore downloading materials and using your computer to create and edit sound files to fit your needs.  Learn to record your students and create CDs and DVDs for use in the classroom as well as for student documentation and for students to take home.

SING IT – DANCE IT
When: Tuesday, March 10, 2008 - 4:00pm-7:30pm
Where: Highland Park Elementary, 1738 E 2700 S
Cost: SLCSD $30.00 - includes materials and snacks
Registration Open: Click here to register online now                       
Help write lyrics to prerecorded orchestrations for your classroom. Whether you are learning about the Rock Cycle, Utah birds, Harriet Tubman, or maps, you will learn how to put your words or your students’ words to music and start building a collection of songs you can use year after year.  You will also learn technique and compositional abilities and knowledge to work more effectively with your students and to make better use of dance in your musical productions. You will develop a vocabulary of basic, commonly-used dance steps—the building blocks of choreography. While we explore a variety of dance styles including traditional dance that might be used in a musical we’ll investigate choreographic tricks of the trade to maximize the impact of simple movements. Build the skills to work within, as well as expand the limitations of your students and look at resources available for inspiration and instruction.  CD of music included.

PROPS and COSTUMES on a BUDGET
When: Cancelled
Where: Location TBA
Cost: SLCSD $30.00 - includes materials and snacks                       
This workshop will give you many options for creating costume crafts and props for use in production or the classroom. We will discuss challenges and realities for creating costumes and props and you’ll discover how to use inexpensive materials to make fun and creative items. You will come away with good ideas for costume and prop projects you can use in your school.  You’ll never believe what can be created with broken hula hoops and fabric scraps!  Fun take home projects included!

PENELOPE MARANTZ CAYWOOD
Penelope has been involved with Youth Theatre at the U (YTU) since 2000. She began as a Guest Artist then acted as Managing Director for three years until she assumed the position of Artistic Director in December 2006. She has worked at numerous community, university, and professional theatres and has directed, choreographed, and musically directed over 25 productions across the Wasatch Front. She is the former Education Director for the Egyptian Theatre Company in Park City and also taught for the Salt Lake and Catholic school districts. Before moving to Salt Lake, Penelope was the co-founder and resident musical director of Curtains Up! Theatre in Palos Verdes, California. Penelope received in BA in Education from Cal State University at Dominguez Hills.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
In 2007, Kingsbury Hall and Salt Lake City School District were selected as the first and only Utah team to be selected to join the prestigious John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Partners in Education program.  The Partners in Education program is designed to assist arts organizations to develop or expand educational partnerships with their local school systems to promote the professional development in the arts education of teachers. This program provides training in and developing professional development workshops for teachers as well as access to Kennedy Center resources and is not a funding program.

For 2007-08, we were able to provide three workshops in music, dance and theatre.  Our goals include teaching across the curriculum, teaching arts with the belief that arts help us develop into better humans and also using the arts to help bridge cultural, racial and religious divides.  We are striving to develop a pool of local artists who are interested in teaching their art form to teachers.  Teachers who participated in these workshops are a blend of regular classroom teachers as well as arts specialists. 

If you have questions or need more information, contact Robin Wilks-Dunn, Kingsbury Education Coordinator, via email or at 801-581-5212.