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For Teachers

• Kits
• Network
• Advisory Council
• Script to Schools Program

Theatre is an extraordinary experience, an art form unlike any other. The Kansas City Repertory Theatre continues to fine-tune and expand our educational services.

Kits

Learning Guides for this season's various shows will be posted as they are produced.

Download the Learning Guide for A Christmas Carol.

Download the Learning Guide for A Marvelous Party

Download the Learning Guide for Gee's Bend

Please review the "Notes on Attending the Theatre" information with your students before attending the performance. Please share this with other chaperones.

Thank you for sharing the guidelines included in these packets with your students to assist them in making choices that will encourage their successful audience participation. We look forward to seeing you soon.

If you have questions, comments or constructive criticism, please contact the Education Department of the Kansas City Repertory Theatre at educate@kcrep.org.

Class Projects

As you consider the projects and resources in the Learning Guide, please feel free to adapt them for your group's needs and grade level. Some of the projects require time for students to prepare, so please allow enough advance time to complete the project before the production.

Each project has three phases:

- Preparing for the Production: Aspects to explore before you attend the theater.
- Active Audience: Things for students to consider while watching the show.
- Connecting in the Classroom: Follow-up activities to complete the learning process.

Network

The Rep's Teacher Network is designed to facilitate communication between teachers and arts professionals so that they can share strategies, practices, lessons, and new professional knowledge related to all aspects of theatre across the curriculum.

A free service, the Rep's Teacher Network includes an online newsletter that serves as a clearing house of current information regarding school events, available arts opportunities to students and theatre educators, and current programming offered by the Rep to the greater Kansas City community.

All interested teachers are invited to contact us and be "Caught in the Net" today. Call 816-235-2707 or input your e-mail address below to be added to our mailing list.

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Advisory Council

The Rep Teachers' Advisory Council helps focus the activities of the education department as we work to develop programming that serves the needs of our educational community.

This braintrust represents a cross section of Kansas City metropolitan area teachers and meets regularly throughout the year.

Watch this space for more schedule information as available or call us at 816-235-2707 for more details.

Script to Schools Program

Theatre is a three-dimensional living art that has its birth in text. While nothing can replace the actual experience of live theatre, we feel is it vital that plays be explored in textual form and that as many plays as possible should be available to students and teachers.

For our educational partners who participate in two or more of our school matinees, we are pleased to donate materials related to all the productions in our season. A gift from the Rep, these scripts are placed on reserve in school libraries for the first year to encourage use by all administrators, teachers and students, and are then donated to the permanent collection in perpetuity.