Posts in Professional Learning
The Paramount Theatre

Our vision is that all young people will have the creative confidence they need to be successful in their communities. With a focus on the youth of Central Texas and their families, we serve approximately 22,000 kids annually.

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Resonate

A huge wealth of talent just landed in Austin! Resonate is a high energy, interactive, motivational percussion troupe. We are drummers, dreamers, and speakers inspiring minds of all ages through the power of percussion.

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Move Your Tale

Improv facilitates learning through an atmosphere of positive purpose, exploring subjects of study in novel & memorable ways. Intentional group activities, turn taking & critical reflection build creative, collaborative experiences & allow learners of all kinds to learn, laugh & explore together.

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Mother Falcon Music Lab

The Mother Falcon Music Lab (MFML) is a multimedia education program which highlights creativity as a means of self discovery, community connection, and innovation. Our music, visual arts, and digital media programming has been developed over 10 years of outreach, residencies, and summer workshops.

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MINDPOP

MINDPOP is a nonprofit consultancy and incubator that connects individuals, organizations, and communities with the insights, tools, and resources they need to increase student access to the arts and to the benefits of creative learning.

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Glass Half Full Theatre

Glass Half Full Theatre creates original, professional, bilingual (Spanish/ English) performances featuring actors and sophisticated puppets and performs at the theater in the Dougherty Arts Center for Elementary and Middle School audiences.  Performances are supported by supplemental educational materials connecting the performance work to TEKs in Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts. 

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Elisabet Ney Museum

The Elisabet Ney Museum is housed in “Formosa,” the Victorian‐era home and studio of Elisabet Ney, a German sculptor who emigrated to America with her husband shortly after the Civil War. The evocative castle‐like limestone structure, designed largely by Ney herself, houses the world’s most extensive collection of her work and has been an Austin landmark for well over a century.

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Creative Action

The Creative Action School-Based Department creates shared arts experiences that build community, connection and capacity for change in schools. Our highly trained teaching artists deliver joyful, multi-disciplinary and multi-session arts experiences.

Creative Action’s School-Based Programs Department has paused in-person classroom visits for the 2020-2021 school year. However, we have virtual/online and socially distant arts programming, as well as virtual professional development to offer your school community!

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Bullock Texas State History Museum

Experience interdisciplinary Texas–Explore history, science, language arts, ESL, the arts, and many other stories of Texas through the Bullock Museum’s school field trip program, distance learning programs, and educator professional development.

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Blanton Museum of Art

Guided visits invite students to be curious, drawing connections between art, their lives, and the world around them so they can become more critically engaged citizens. Students are encouraged to use evidential reasoning to construct interpretations about objects of art and develop social and emotional skills. Lessons are designed to support TEKS and English language learners. They reinforce classroom objectives and promote arts integration across the curriculum. We can customize gallery experiences for PK-12 audiences to meet the goals of your group. 

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Ballet Austin

Ballet Austin is committed to offering educators resources and opportunities to provide young people with arts experiences, specifically in dance.

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Awesome Art!

Awesome Art! offers virtual, synchronous, asynchronous, one-off and continuous art activities for children of all ages. Visual multimedia MFA artist and educator Allison Lash provides SEL Development, art to watch and make, virtual field trips, workshops, activities (indoors and outdoors) and family/community wide activities.

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Austin Opera

Austin Opera currently offers FREE programing and resources for grades Pk-12. Virtual programming is available.

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Austin Community Steelband

Austin Community Steelband’s professional Steelpan school’s high quality in school, after school, and workshop music programs teach students to play this unique instrument through steelband’s engaging musical teamwork experience. Instruction, stressing excellence, motivates and guides them in developing their talent and creativity to become proficient performers. We incorporate Trinidad’s traditional instruction method that stimulates students’ curiosity and helps them learn quickly, which engages, creates interest, and transcends culture and language difficulties while addressing music TEKS. Our Trinidad-born instructors provide personal interaction and experience rarely found outside Trinidad, steelpan’s birthplace. We also provide performances.

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Austin Classical Guitar

ACG Education offers comprehensive services for guitar teachers and students in Austin ISD. These services include teacher training, curriculum, PD, in-class consultation and team teaching, professional performances for students.

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Austin Chamber Music Center

Education is at the heart of the Austin Chamber Music Center. Numerous educational opportunities support musicians of all ages, levels, and interests. ACMC is a learning community that sparks creativity through collaboration, inspires practice, instills leadership, and demands fun!

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Asian Mindful Art

Learn about Asia, get inspired, and create original artwork! Surapsari ("Sari") offers Asian-themed art activities to K-8 students. Sari grew up in Japan and studied in India. She has taught at schools, public libraries, and other educational venues for twenty years.

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