2024-2025 Saturday Synchronous Series
Join the Focus 5 team for an exciting year of interactive virtual sessions, where you’ll explore a wide range of arts-integrated teaching strategies, all anchored in the powerful art of storytelling.
Throughout the year, you’ll discover how to bring stories to life through various art forms to create rich, engaging experiences for your students.
Register for one or all of the Saturday sessions!
Bulk registrations are available.
Each Synchronous Zoom Session is taught by a nationally recognized, highly trained specialist in the arts and education fields including National Board Certified Teachers, certified reading specialists, professional artists, and teaching artists.
Appropriate for teachers of grades K-12 (varies by session, see below)
All classes are 90 minutes long:
Pacific: 10-11:30am | Mountain: 11am-12:30pm | Central: 12-1:30pm | Eastern: 1-2:30pm
2024-2025 Saturday Sync Series
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Storigami: Storytelling with Origami
For Teachers of Grades K - 5
with Kuniko Yamamato
Unfold the magic of storytelling through the art of origami!
Saturday, December 7, 2024
Art as Story: Unlocking Inpiration for Telling and Retelling Stories
For Teachers of Grades K - 5
with Melanie Rick and Morgan Vaught
Explore the transformative intersection of art, literature, and technology!
Saturday, January 11, 2025
In the Director's Chair: Ensemble Storytelling
For Teachers of Grades 2 - 6
with Elizabeth Pisel-Davis
Learn to guide student actors in crafting compelling staged reading and empower them to make bold, confident storytelling choices!
Saturday, Febuary 8, 2025
Spin a Shadow, Tell a Tale: Shadow Puppetry and Storytelling
For Teachers of Grades 2 - 5
with Daniel Barash
Help students deepen story comprehension through shadow puppetry! This is a hands-on session where teachers will learn to construct shadow theatre screens and puppets.
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Tiny Toy Tales: Deepening Literacy through Storytelling
For Teachers of Grades PreK - 2
with Kassie Misiewicz
Make storytelling come alive for your students using the well-known Tiny Toy Tales books utilizing tiny toys and props. This is a hands-on session where teachers will have time to make their own Tiny Toy Tale.
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Sharing Stories through Sound: Interview-Based Podcasts to Build School-Community Bridges
For Teachers of Grades 3 - 8
with Ryan Conarro
Help students create their own interview-based podcasts to engage with the outside community, learn about ethical journalism, and share their final works with the world!
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We are incredibly excited at Focus 5 about the chance to work with you and help you integrate arts into your curriculum.
It's powerful, it's accessible, and its effect on students is profound!