Schools and Professional Development
student matinees
Field Trips
Children’s Theatre Company offers Weekday Student Matinee performances for your classroom, homeschool, or community educational group. Attending a CTC performance ignites students’ creativity while supporting your curriculum and learning goals. Field trip reservations for the 2023 – 2024 school year are available now!
AGES 2-6
Creative Play
Imagination & mindfulness
Creative Play is an interactive creative storytelling program designed to support early learners’ social, emotional, and cognitive development. Students participate in creative arts activities to engage the whole body, voice, and imagination as a means of cognitive development in self-regulation, problem-solving, and emotional expression.
PREschool –Grade 1
Early Bridges
Storytelling & Literacy
Early Bridges is a literacy program that uses storytelling and creative drama to help young children transform into storytellers of their own lives. Teaching artists and classroom teachers collaborate to bring stories to life in early childhood learning environments, and engage students in expressive language skill-building and dramatic play.
GRADES 2-12
Neighborhood Bridges
Storytelling & Literacy
The Bridges program is a nationally-recognized literacy program using storytelling, theatre arts, and creative writing to support learners in the development of critical literacy, collaboration, and public speaking skills to transform them into storytellers of their own lives.
Professional Development
Professional Development training rooted in Children’s Theatre Company pedagogy is available to educators, school districts, social services organizations, and corporations both regionally and nationally. These workshops are designed to train participants to implement the Children’s Theatre Company pedagogy and techniques in their local communities and classrooms, helping them to enrich their personal and professional practices by using art-based strategies to accomplish their learning goals.
For more information, or to book your training now, email schools@childrenstheatre.org.
flipgrid
Discovery Library
CTC and Flipgrid have partnered to ignite your imagination and inspire creativity in your digital classroom! This education engagement tool allows students to access curriculum-based resources while interacting with classmates and educators via video. CTC’s Flipgrid topics explore technical theatre, mindfulness, songwriting, playwriting, and more.