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ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL THEATER EDUCATOR WINTER ROUNDTABLE
DATE AND TIME:
Saturday, January 10, 2026
9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
(*Deadline for registration is Monday, January 5th*)
LOCATION:
Perpich Center for Arts Education
GAIA Building, Large Glass Box – 2nd Floor
6125 Olson Memorial Highway
Golden Valley, MN 55422
COST: FREE
CLOCK HOURS: Certificates will be given for 4 Clock Hours
TARGET AUDIENCE: Minnesota Elementary and Middle School Theater Educators and Directors
DETAILS:
You asked and we answered! Join us for the first ever winter edition of our Elementary and Middle School Roundtable! We will spend half a day together to share your challenges, questions, strategies, ideas, and resources for teaching elementary and middle school theater. This session will continue to build upon the knowledge and resources shared at our past two summer roundtables, and you’re welcome to join whether you are returning or new to this circle!
This day is FOR you and will be largely shaped BY you! It is about sharing and connecting with one another, and building on the collective wisdom in the room. Drawing upon your notes and evaluations from last summer about what is top of mind for you, we will focus on these topics at this gathering:
- More game/activity/exercise sharing
- Strategies for Building Community, Engaging All Learners, and Managing the Classroom
- Lesson or Unit Plan sharing
- Informal lunch conversations about AI, Teaching Tech Theater, and other topics
- And a guest appearance by Christine Deignan, half of a professional duo working to create new, relevant, useful, age-appropriate Middle School Musicals, who is curious for your input on their newest work-in-progress
In the registration form, please be sure to indicate what you might be willing to share (a theater game/exercise, a strategy for community building and engagement, and/or a lesson/unit plan). I’ll follow up asking for more details as we get closer, and then I’ll work to structure the day and the conversations accordingly!
Lunch will be included! Please indicate your dietary restrictions on the registration form.
OTHER DETAILS:
This roundtable day is hosted by Dr. Stephanie Lein Walseth, Theater Education Specialist in Professional Development and Resource Programs at Perpich Center for Arts Education
(More here: https://perpich.mn.gov/professional-development/state-arts-education-specialists/theater-education-specialist/)
This workshop is FREE for participants. Upon completion, certificates for 4 Clock Hours will be available.
Please contact Stephanie with any questions about the workshop: stephanie.walseth@pcae.k12.mn.us
