Sign up for upcoming online and in-person professional development programs. Teachers and teaching artists can earn stipends as they adapt and implement new arts-based approaches for their English language arts curriculum.

2025 Programs

SPRING 2025

Mar 26 | Apr 16 | May 21

4:30–6pm PST | 7:30–9pm EST
Online Sessions

Teacher Inquiry Groups

Is Shakespeare still funny? Join with other English Language Arts educators to discuss and experiment with selections from Shakespeare comedies taught through the lens of social justice.

$100 stipend per session and $150 final session with submission of lesson plan.

8am–12pm PDT
In-Person Course
Los Angeles High School of the Arts

Sat. March 29

Professional Development – Julius Caesar

Gain strategies, lesson plans, and student handouts to:

  • Explore the thematic and standards-based lessons of Status, Power, Leadership, and Relationships in Scenes 1, 2, 3, and more.

  • Investigate identity, community diversity, systems of justice, and art-making while building positive classroom and school communities.

  • Explore essential questions for student-led discussions and performance tasks that connect them to what happens in our lives today.

  • Assist students in finding connections between Shakespeare texts and social justice themes while learning to tell their own stories.

$400 stipend with submission of lesson plan. Sign up by Feb. 28

FALL 2025

Sat. September 13

8–11am PST | 11am–2pm EST
Online Course

Professional Development – Who's Laughing with Us?: Exploring Power and Identity in Shakespeare's Comedies as we learn to boldly dream of an equitable world through laughter in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare.

$400 teacher stipend and $300 student stipend for completing the 3-hour training.
Sign up by Aug. 18

This is a national arts integration workshop designed for high school teachers, with a focus on strategies that connect social justice, theatre arts and English Language Arts.  If you have a high school student you believe would benefit from this experience and grow as a leader by learning beside you, please encourage them to sign up. There are twelve student spaces available on a first-come, first-served basis.