Cambridge Public Schools Drama Collaborative


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The Cambridge Public Schools Drama Collaborative exists to integrate the dramatic arts with other core academic subjects to enrich both teaching and learning. The program emphasizes teachers' own knowledge and skill development as well as that of their students, and seeks to sustain participating teachers' work over time by building communities to support teachers' and students' dramatic work at the building level. Activites are aligned with learning strands from the Massachusetts Arts, English/Language Arts, and History/Social Science frameworks.

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I've talked with students and teachers. The teachers corner you when they find you and tell you what this program means to them and their students. The program is a passion with teachers. One teacher told me she never dreamed she could do this...For the students, it opens them up, allows them to be honest. Students improve their ability to express themselves. It increases their confidence. Teachers speak about the social-emotional pieces that happen that they didn't count on."

--Superintendent, Cambridge Public Schools

 

"I'm a convert. Kids share, they
cooperate. A kid who I have to
pester about homework every day suddenly becomes concerned with the quality of his work."

-Kathy Greeley, 7/8 teacher and pilot
program participant

CPSDC Program Description

Program Description
Program History
Program Funding

Calendar of Events

2003-2004 Workshops
Focus Group Meetings
Student Performances
Special Events
Announcements

Curriculum Guides

Civil War
Immigration
Shakespeare
Animal Farm
Explorers
China - Belief Systems
Freedom
Theater Games
Playwriting Resources
The Pushcart War: a novel
Multicultural Cinderella
Why is the Sky So Far Away?
Heroes
The Newspaper
The Rainbow Story
Native American Folktale:
How Rabbit Stole Fire

Who We Are:
CPSDC Community and Partners

Cambridge Public Schools
Studebaker Theater
Wheelock Familty Theatre
Wheelock College
CPSDC directors, artists and teachers 

Contact Us

Department of Drama and Dance
Cambridge Public Schools
459 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-349-6788
jcontrucci@cpsd.us
wendslow@cpsd.us


         
         

 


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