Two children work together on a craft project at a classroom table, using construction paper, glue, and other art supplies. Other students are visible in the background.

Arts In Education Week – Opportunities

September 17, 2015

Alliance Theatre

Through the Alliance Arts for Learning Institute and our deep interest and commitment as a theater in “expanding hearts and minds on stage and off,” we believe that we are abundantly equipped to support the final recommendation of the Arts Learning Task Force of Resourceful and Innovative Approaches to Arts Learning.
 
The resources of the Alliance Arts for Learning (AA4L) Institute provide a rich and robust set of program opportunities available to school districts and increase our ability to offer high quality, innovative arts integrated instruction for both professional learning for educators and classroom instruction for students.
 
Through a partnership with Tapestry Charter School, an inclusion-model Middle School in DeKalb County, the Alliance Theatre’s efforts are being thoughtfully implemented to make our work truly universal. In the 2014/15 school year, Alliance Theatre teaching artist Barry Stewart Mann directed a performance involving the entire school population. This performance was written and performed by the students at the school and completed in just 3 days. This year, Tapestry Charter School is partnering with the Alliance Theatre to implement a Meet Your Seat program for individuals with an Autism Spectrum Disorder, as well as collaborating to provide additional online resources for people of all abilities.
 
The Alliance Theatre is proud to be involved as a community collaborator and a resource throughout the state of Georgia in the arts learning community and beyond.