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Are you ready for students to work as a team and solve their own problems when they get stuck? In this residency, learn how students can use simple tools like Google Slides to create animated GIFs. The catch? Animators must all finish each challenge without step-by-step instructions.

By creating a highly engaging and supportive environment, students will be motivated to take a risk and try – and learn from what does and does not work. Most of all, they will gain the confidence, skills, and sense of community they need to tackle future problems...together.

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Animation Challenges: Inspiring Collaboration and Problem Solving

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Graphic Design Challenges: Inspiring Collaboration and Problem-Solving

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Graphic Design Challenges: Inspiring Collaboration and Problem-Solving

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Graphic Design Challenges: Inspiring Collaboration and Problem-Solving

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Our students will face problems…to infinity and beyond! In this unique graphic design residency, learn how students can use a simple tool like PowerPoint to create memes of themselves as problem-solving superheroes.

The twist? For the superheroes to emerge, the students must first learn how to function as a team as they uncover which tools to use and how to use them. They will face challenges. They will problem-solve. They will learn to rely on each other, becoming a community of problem solvers who just might end up...saving the world.

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Graphic Design Challenges: Inspiring Collaboration and Problem Solving

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Step it Up! Teamwork and Self-Expression Through Stepping

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Step it Up! Teamwork and Self-Expression Through Stepping

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Stepping is a highly-energetic percussive dance form that uses stomps, claps, pats, and shouts to produce complex rhythms and choreography. 👏🏾

In this residency, work with Jason Nious, performer with Usher, Cirque du Soleil, Stomp, Molodi, and the International Body Music Festival.

Experience how seamless the

elements of teamwork such as nonverbal communication, leading/following, and creative problem-solving are integrated and embedded in the creative process of stepping while reinforcing social and emotional learning.

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Looking for something that is highly mathematical, packed with geometry and fractions? Origami, the art of folding paper, is the answer!

In this residency, award-winning origami artist & storyteller, Kuniko, will teach students how to fold a variety of origami models with step-by-step instructions. Students will then create folding patterns that demonstrate understanding of shapes, angles, geometric attributes and fractions.

Join Kuniko, a native of Japan,as she folds her artistry, cultural perspectives and math games into every session.

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Moving and Modeling Earth Systems: Exploring Forces of the Land, Water, and Air

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Moving and Modeling Earth Systems: Exploring Forces of the Land, Water, and Air

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Much like a dance, Earth's systems are a dynamic interplay of motion and energy that shape erosion, climate, and weather phenomena. In this residency, students will use the elements of dance to gain a deeper understanding of Earth's systems.

By creating dance models, students illustrate the forces and interconnections among land, water, and air. This interactive experience will guide students through an exploration of how Earth's systems influence one another and reveal the scientific principles at work within these systems.

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Moving & Modeling Earth Systems Teacher Promo

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Drawing to Write: Portraits for the Non-artists

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Drawing to Write: Portraits for the Non-artists

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Drawing can be an intimidating experience for some students. In this engaging, hands-on residency, students go from the visual to the verbal through an easily accessible method of drawing portraits.

Using the portrait as inspiration for narratives, students make inferences from the visual clues in their portraits to develop character traits and dialogue for oral or written language.

Led by teaching artist from Texas, Kay Thomas. After this residency students will say, “Drawing-I can do it and I know what to write/say too!”

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"I Can't Get This Song Out of My Head!" - Academic Songwriting in The Classroom

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"I Can't Get This Song Out of My Head!" - Academic Songwriting in The Classroom

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How many songs do you know by heart? Songs have a

staying power that lasts years, if not a lifetime.

This residency harnesses that power and takes it a step further by having students create original songs focusing on standards-based content, such as life cycles, plant parts, volcanic eruptions and more! The residency concludes with a few rehearsals, some guitar accompaniment, and the students singing a song they developed and will never forget.

Move and sing along with teaching artist Sam Tidwell in a residency where students construct meaning, demonstrate understanding, and discover their musical talent all at once.

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Harmonizing Word and Movement in the Art of Dance

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Harmonizing Word and Movement in the Art of Dance

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In this residency, writers and choreographers unite, blending the lyrical and the physical to ignite imagination and create meaning. Students improve their language skills by expressing the meaning of written words.

During this residency, students will delve into creative movement, choreography, and free-form verse, demonstrating their understanding of specific academic vocabulary. Guided by Morgan Vaught, a teaching artist and former classroom teacher alongside Harlan Brownlee, a choreographer and teaching artist, students will integrate expressive techniques with creative movement.

Join us for this distinctive artistic voyage, where language and dance come together, fostering a deeper appreciation for the nuances of language and the power of movement.

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Biome Boogie: Exploring Animal & Plant Adaptations with Dance

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Biome Boogie: Exploring Animal & Plant Adaptations with Dance

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Inspired by the Earth's diverse biomes and the remarkable adaptations of plants and animals, students engage in creative movement and dance to illustrate their understanding of various biomes and the intricate relationships between flora, fauna, and their environments.

Through this immersive experience, students explore themes such as protection, camouflage, food acquisition, and locomotion. They delve into the survival strategies of different species and draw parallels to how humans mimic these adaptations.

This dynamic approach not only fosters a deeper appreciation for nature's ingenuity, but also highlights the interconnectedness of all life forms

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Biome Boogie - Exploring Animal & Plant Adaptations with Dance

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Acting Out Sneak Previews in the Language Arts Classroom 

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Acting Out Sneak Previews in the Language Arts Classroom 

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How can we entice students to read new books? Through "Sneak Previews!" Sneak Previews are not just limited to films; they can also be a fantastic tool for igniting curiosity and sparking interest among young readers. These student-developed previews offer a brief, yet impactful, overview of a story's essential elements such as the setting, characters, and plot--without ever revealing the ending.

In this residency guided by Brazilian theater specialist Maria Schaedler-Luera, students learn techniques of effective narration and pantomime to help them bring their sneak previews to life. This unique opportunity creates a dynamic and immersive experience while fostering critical thinking skills, collaboration, and a love for reading.

* This residency can be taught in English or Spanish.

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Shadow Puppetry and Social Emotional Learning

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Shadow Puppetry and Social Emotional Learning

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Shadow puppetry is an age-old art form that takes place behind an illuminated screen, helping students feel safe when exploring Social Emotional Learning scenarios.

In this residency, students create shadow puppet presentations that demonstrate how to identify conflicts, convey emotions related to those conflicts, and ultimately explore healthy SEL skills that can resolve such conflicts.

Join teaching artist, Daniel Barash, as he guides students to explore the spectrum of human emotions through the engaging, hands-on, and wondrous tradition of shadow puppetry.

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BOOM! BANG! POW! Creating Cause & Effect Connections Through Comics

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BOOM! BANG! POW! Creating Cause & Effect Connections Through Comics

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The literary medium of comic books engages students with a dynamic and expressive way to demonstrate understanding!

In this residency, students learn to create colorful comics that help them identify and understand cause and effect relationships in classroom content and in their lives. These comic book creations can be more than works of art–-they can also be quick assessments of student learning.

Join artist Garrett Brown as he puts the Boom! Bang! Pow! into classroom content.

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Shadow Puppetry and the Power of a Change-Maker

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Shadow Puppetry and the Power of a Change-Maker

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Shadow puppetry, an ancient yet thoroughly modern art form that casts shadows on an illuminated screen, is the perfect artform for storytelling. It becomes even more dynamic when the stories are about young people and their efforts to protect our planet.

In this residency, students create their own shadow puppets to bring "to life" stories of children from around the world who are taking action to protect our fragile planet.

Join teaching artist, Daniel Barash, as he engages students in this hands-on, captivating tradition of shadow puppetry to help them appreciate how we can ALL create change that impacts our world.

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Today’s classrooms reflect a melting pot of diverse students. World music provides an engaging way to build students’ background knowledge of cultures and expand their awareness of a variety of cultural traditions and lifestyles.

This residency brings vitality to a students’ understanding of various cultures through singing songs, hearing stories, viewing artifacts and instruments, and exploring traditional manners and salutations from specific cultures. This experience leads to respect, acceptance, and appreciation on a local, national, and global scale.

Professional vocalist and teaching artist Imani Gonzalez guides you on a memorable journey using music as the common thread that ties all communities together.

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If Paintings Could Talk: Voices in History Through Monologue

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If Paintings Could Talk: Voices in History Through Monologue

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Imagining and comprehending historical people, places and events can be challenging for students who are grounded in the present. That changes, however, when students learn to "read" works of art depicting the past and then bring them to life through monologue.

In this residency students gather information from biographies and paintings focused on a specific individual from the social studies curriculum. They gather information and write monologues that these historical figures might have spoken. Then, students create audio recordings of themselves performing these monologues. The project culminates in a final product where, using technology, historical portraits appear to recite the students' monologues.

Join teaching artist and former classroom teacher, Morgan Vaught, as she guides students in discovering what would happen if paintings could talk!

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The Art of History: Creating Memorials for Historic Figures and Events

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The Art of History: Creating Memorials for Historic Figures and Events

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Bring out the inner sculptor in your students!

During this fast-paced, hands-on residency, students bend, fold, and roll paper into sculptural models that memorialize selected individuals, ideas, or events from history.

Join Kay Thomas, sculptor artist from Texas, for a deep art experience guaranteed to reveal the builders in your classroom and give

3-dimensional thinkers a voice.