Join Wolf Trap Jan 22-27, 2024 for Wolf Trap Professional Development Week: Supporting and Celebrating Early Childhood Teachers Through the Arts. The week-long event will include a series of FREE arts-integrated professional development webinars designed for early childhood educators and teaching artists....
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Look beyond coffee mugs, gift cards, and chocolates this holiday season: give teachers something they can use in the classroom to bring arts learning to life! We checked in with some Wolf Trap Teaching Artists for suggestions for joyful holiday gifts—which double as great ideas for children to extend their learning at home! Scarves & Streamers Besides looking beautiful, scarves and streamers can help children...
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Wolf Trap Teaching Artist Morgan Sendek Uses Her Theatrical Training to Help Early Childhood Educators Enhance Children’s Social-Emotional Skills Through Arts Integration Morgan Sendek, a Teaching Artist with Wolf Trap Institute since 2016, is passionate about her dual career as an actor and arts educator. “My love for teaching deepens as I grow as a performer and acquire new skills,” she says, “and in turn,...
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Advice from Wolf Trap Teaching Artists on How to Set the Stage for Arts Learning Arts integration is a powerful tool that can be used to create deeper, more meaningful learning experiences for young children. Research indicates that it can build stronger child-teacher interactions,1 increase language development,2 support social-emotional development,3 expand math learning,4 and improve teacher practice.5 But for some teachers, incorporating the arts into...
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Long-Standing Partnership Provides Backdrop for Central Indiana Wolf Trap and Its Work with Indiana Head Start Educators Ploi Pagdalian, senior director of programs for Arts for Learning Indiana, was first approached by Indianapolis-based Family Development Services (FDS) to bring children’s performances to its schools 20 years ago. What began as a one-year engagement has expanded to a multi-year partnership that each year helps support more...
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It’s a familiar refrain among early childhood providers, whether they are brand new to the profession or in their tenth year: “How can I meet the needs of a classroom full of active students?” Providing guidance for a classroom full of busy young children can be challenging–especially at the start or end of a school day, snack time, nap time, outdoor playtime, or during transitions....
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Culture Queen Makes Her Triumphant Return to Children’s Theatre-in-the-Woods to Create Magical Memories, This Time as a Performer Family music artist Jessica “Culture Queen” Hebron is no stranger to Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. From attending her annual summer “family field trips” as a child to see Filene Center performers like Diana Ross and Ziggy Marley to bringing groups to Children’s Theatre-in-the-Woods as...
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Michael Hearst and His Band Promise a Curious, Unusual, and Extraordinary Adventure for Families at Wolf Trap’s Children’s Theatre-in-the-Woods this Summer Imagine a TED Talk for kids, but with live music. Family music artist, author, and Wolf Trap’s Children’s Theatre-in-the-Woods performer Michael Hearst is on a mission to captivate the hearts and minds of young audiences with educational performances dedicated to only the world’s most...
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Spanish and English-speaking music duo Musiquita is fresh on the family music scene with a mission to celebrate diversity and nurture different cultures and languages with their music, performed in both English and Spanish. Musiquita is comprised of husband and wife duo Blanca Cecilia González, a Juilliard-trained violinist and Colombia native, and Jesse Elder, a professional pianist and the former Music Director of the band...
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“Kindie” Performer Marsha Goodman-Wood Uses Music to Teach Complex Concepts─and Draws Inspiration from Surprising Places Marsha Goodman-Wood knows her science! She’s a trained cognitive neuroscientist, and she uses this knowledge as a foundation for her work with children. Goodman-Wood is a teaching artist with Arts for Learning Maryland and Maryland Wolf Trap, and is also the lead in a “Kindie” (kids + indie rock) band,...
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