EdTA Members, I am very excited to share our new Learning Center is live!
Over the past year, we've been listening closely to your feedback about the old Learning Center and what we heard was clear: you need more resources that are easy to find, accessible, and practical. With that in mind, our team has spent the past year rethinking, curating, and building this space, and we're thrilled to share it with you.
Explore the Learning Center here!
If you are an EdTA member, you receive free access to all of the resources available (simply sign in with your EdTA credentials).
Here are some updates you can find:
- A cleaner, more intuitive layout with powerful search tools
- Updated course-style lesson plans designed to be clear, visual, and classroom-ready, with videos and projection-ready materials to help cut down on planning time
- A brand-new Thespian framework built into our lesson plans, making instruction both accessible and distinctly Thespian
- Professional development courses available for certificate credit, along with an archive of past webinars
- New resources for Teaching Artists, something we're especially excited to offer for the first time
- A new unit series focusing on playwrights of color. These units give educators a deep dive into a play to share with their students are approved for Thespy use!
- Our Theatre Advocacy Toolkit, including new advocacy lesson plans to help you prepare for Theatre In Our Schools Month in March
- Partner resources, including our ongoing partnership with The National Theatre and a new collaboration with the Broadway Green Alliance, now featuring a dedicated hub of sustainability-focused resources
- Resources for Thespys, including adjudicator training and tools to help you prepare students for Thespys
New unit plans, professional development opportunities, and webinars will continue to be added each month.
If there's a resource you used frequently in the old Learning Center and can't locate it, please reach out to education@schooltheatre.org - everything has been archived, and we're happy to share what is needed with our members.
Thank you for all you do!
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Lisanne Shaffer-Dickerson
Educational Theatre Association
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