Empowering Students
How do we empower students to use their unique voices?
Which cultural traditions does your work respond to and sustain?
Maurice Emmanuel Parent and Megan Sandberg-Zakian:
The Artist in Teaching Artist
As a teaching artist, you use your powers of empathy and observation to think creatively and critically every day. You have insights about how opportunities to create and imagine vary from school to school, neighborhood to neighborhood. Listen to actor Maurice Parent reflect in just this way as he analyzes his life as a theater teacher and an actor. Hear him fuse the creative and the critical into a sharp analysis of schooling.
How can arts education invite young people to think creatively and critically? Hear what arts organizations have to say:
Print Center
WHYY
Mae Early: The Artist in Teaching Artist
Mae Early spends her time as a theater artist and Curriculum Developer and Program Manager at the Bartol Foundation. This video, made when Mae was the Director of Education & Program Services and Philadelphia Young Playwrights, provides an artistic response to the idea of empowering her students.
What does student empowerment look like?
Hear what arts organizations have to say:
Dance eXchange
Arden Theater
Spiral Q
Looking to dive deeper?
Check out these supporting materials:
Maurice Emmanuel Parent’s Website
Megan Sandberg Zakian’s Website
Sample Lesson Plan from Mae Early feat. the “Head and Heart” exercise
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“At Lyric Stage Company, 'Mr. Parent' has lessons to teach that go well beyond the classroom“ by Jacquinn Sinclair, WBUR
“Lasting lessons in Lyric Stage’s ‘Mr. Parent’” by Don Aucoin, Boston Globe
“The Team that Put Mr. Parent in a Class, by Himself” by Terry Byrne, Boston Globe
“Arts This Week: Reviewing Boston schools through theater” by Jared Bown, WGBH
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Educational Inequity Resources curated by Public Education Consultant on the Lyric Stage Production, Neema Avashia
“Separate but Unequal” — 2014 Episode of Frontline
“Schools need teachers of color. This is how to retain them, educators say.” by Kate Rix, The Hechinger Report on NBC News