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I have been asked to share some of my favorite strategies for teaching drama.  In the next couple of months, I want to share 20 strategies with you, and I challenge you to select one you have never used and give it a try.  I’d ...

Classroom management and student engagement often begin with selecting the right story for your class. In my curriculum, younger students start out by playing the major characters all together. Then, as a next step, I place them in groups where they learn how to divide ...

Vocal Work – Building Vocal Confidence – Sound to Dialogue   Beginning with movement, imitation, and pantomime is an excellent choice for young actors or beginning actors of any age.  Sooner or later, however, you need to introduce the human voice.  Improvising believable dialogue is ...

OneStopDRAMAShop and Creative Directions are excited to welcome Pam Bowell as a presenter for a virtual one day working session on Saturday, January 14th on Process Drama.  Overwhelmingly, our summer conference attendees asked for “More Pam, please.”  So here she comes all the way from ...

I recently had a question posed by Abbey in Maryland, who wanted to know more about negotiation strategies. I am including her question and my answer here in hopes that it will give others more insight into these strategies. You might want to reference the ...

Some of you requested more help with addressing bullying behaviors in your classrooms and wondered what choices you might make in selecting and devising drama work.  Drama is a powerful tool in addressing bullying.  It must be used consistently and over time to be effective.  ...

If it has been a while since you have visited OneStopDRAMAShop.com, there are some exciting new changes I would love to share with you. First Ron, Adam, and I have been joined by two new folks who are assisting in getting material together to share ...

Announcing Onestopdramashop.com’s Inaugural Online Conference We are thrilled to announce that our first ever SPICE It Up! Conference is happening this summer from August 12-13, 2022. We wanted to create a space for our teachers to deepen their knowledge of Arts Integration and expand their ...

A new feature, Working with Books, encourages you to look at your bookshelves and find the perfect new or classic book with which to build a classroom drama. I will begin with my favorites, but I encourage you to send me titles and your notes ...

This is the fourth blog article written as I pause from my regular blog posts which focus on drama classroom management, integration, collaboration, and assessment to share ideas about conducting drama for remote learners in the age of online classes and social distancing.  I know ...