Posts in Professional Learning
ZACH Theatre

ZACH offers professional children's theatre productions performed on ZACH's campus that address state curriculum standards through children's literature and cultural perspectives. ZACH also offers in-school programming in schools that supplement theatre education in classrooms.

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UT Austin Drama for Schools

UT Austin Drama for Schools is an organization that believes in the power of learning in and through the arts. We strive to equip PreK-12 classroom teachers with the tools to feel empowered and prepared to use creative teaching in their spaces of learning. We work interdisciplinary across theatre, dance, visual art, and music and with teachers and students of all abilities.

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Resonate

Resonate is a high energy, interactive, percussion-forward performance group offering shows and workshops for all ages—no experience required! We use our bodies as rhythmic instruments and center our performances around drumming on unconventional objects, encouragement through storytelling, and interaction with the crowd.

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Move Your Tale & Excused Absence Comedy

MYT & ExAb's Improv programs are hands-on, collaborative theatre providing one-of-a-kind performing arts experiences that resonate beyond the stage. Classes, Residencies, and Live Performances on campus and at ColdTowne Theater. Listen. Say yes. Find the funny 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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Latinas Unidas Por El Arte - LUPE Arte

LUPE Arte is a multimedia, multidisciplinary art education organization serving youth and supporting artists by providing culturally relevant programming.

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Glass Half Full Theatre

Glass Half Full blends artistic forms and issues to produce innovative, fresh theatrical experiences for all ages. In 2025-2026 we will be offering giant lantern puppets combined with short shadow puppetry performances and an online screening from our award winning show currently on National Tour.

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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!

Allison Lash’s Awesome Art! offers engaging, hands-on visual arts experiences for students of all ages (children, adults, school staff ) through one-time sessions, multi-day workshops, and community-wide events. Whether indoors, outdoors, or virtually, each activity is thoughtfully designed to foster creativity, self-expression, and connection.

Rooted in the Reggio Emilia approach, Allison provides open-ended art experiences that prioritize exploration over perfection. Students are encouraged to think and create like artists—experimenting freely, making choices, and embracing the process.

With a strong focus on Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), Awesome Art! programs cultivate collaboration, reflection, and joyful discovery. Participants build confidence, solve problems creatively, and form meaningful relationships.

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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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