CityWide DPS Snap Shots

 

                                                            24 Jan 2025

          In this dark week, I am determined to do two things: walk more than usual (working toward 10k a day), and write a positive blog.

          So here we go.

          I have not walked 10k steps this week, made it to 8k Weds. So have failed at the 10k goal, but am "taking more steps a day than you normally do." My average is 5,538 a day.  I was averaging 3K in November, so go me. Failed but not failed.

          I took seven students to DPS CityWide, which is ...hold please, eavesdropping on Northfield Theatre. Who has a FT TD, FT teacher, PT teacher and student teacher but no theatre building, they work in a cafetorium...OK, so CityWide  is this cool thing DPS does because they support PA. And this year it's devised work, which is my jam, and performed like Too Much Light...which is also my jam.

          I have been at Kennedy for three weeks. In that time, I have "tattled" on their concept of "Peer to Peer" or "Unified" theatre and PE. It is not being executed correctly. So I told.

          I arrived at the DCPA with my seven students....hold on there friend, please note by previous paragraph. I've been in this building with students for only three weeks and I managed to get seven students to attend CityWide Theatre Fest at the DCTC. More on that later. The point of this first mention is that, in my tattling to the curriculum admin at DPS, I reconnected with  a guy who is a playwright and works for DCPA and did workshops for us at APS.  Turns out he knows how to create for Sped AND the curriculum admin has money to pay him to come work with me in my class. So he's coming next Friday!

         Go Tattle Tale!

         Also meeting all these cool DPS theatre teachers, admin who are stupid super supportive of theatre. Like...what? Really? What planet am I on?

        Super. Supportive.

        Northfield is doing Hadesdtown full on in their cafetorium that they share with DSST.

        Of course there's still no money for a TD in the building but...

        Listening to them share ideas about how to communicate in so many other  languages. "Cheat out" in Kurdish means "Cheater".  "Proscenium" means "sidewalk" in another language. Love this. 

        Photo of seven kids from Kennedy and a scary old gnome woman weirdly crouching behind them, why am I crouching?