Workshops and Trainings
When we come to your school or organization to do a workshop for your educators, we share our decades of classroom experience teaching theatre arts and critical literacy.
Using Storytelling and the Arts to Explore African American History in MN: 1850-Present Day
Duration: 60 - 90 minutes
Target Audience: Educators
Speaking Out Collective has worked with the community to gather stories that center the African American community here in Minnesota.
Participate in a lesson plan and gain stories and tools to bring these to your classroom.
Interested in finding out more about creating a puppet video at your school or organization? Please fill out our Contact Form, and we’ll be in touch shortly.
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Connection, Healing and Resilience through Storytelling
Duration: 60 - 90 minutes
Target Audience: Educators
Stories break down barriers and help us find ways to talk about human experiences through metaphor.
Stories help us connect with others and foster feelings of belonging while providing opportunities to form relationships with joy and laughter.
Join Speaking Out Collective for an interactive session on storytelling games to utilize with both young people and adults.
Critical Literacy and Perspective Taking
Duration: 60 - 90 minutes
Target Audience: Educators
Take part in activities to make critical literacy come alive in your classroom in collaboration and with creativity.
Growing Stories in your Classroom
Duration: 60 - 90 minutes
Target Audience: Preschool and Elementary Educators
Learn ways to use a story, picture book, or song as the jumping off point to create new stories in collaboration with your students.
Explore how drama, visual arts, and bookmaking can give your students’ stories a physical presence in the classroom that grows and evolves over time.
Bringing Stories Out of the Book
Duration: 60 -90 minutes
Target Audience: Preschool and Elementary Educators
Bring your favorite stories out of the books and into the classroom with simple steps to support your class in embodied literacy.
Using the Three Little Pigs as an example, we’ll use different strategies to get students up and acting out the story in minutes.
We’ll also explore puppet making as a way to bring stories to life.
