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Afterpiece is a podcast about Educational Theatre. Each week, we will share some of our combined 50 years of teaching and directing experience with you…from stories of the history of the Texas theatre to theatre curriculum… from directing strategies to teaching strategies…and from balancing life and work to to raising a family in the theatre.
Episodes
Saturday Jul 08, 2023
Saturday Jul 08, 2023
In this episode, Billy and Annie Share some things they learned at the SummerFest Theatre Conference and they share what they are reading this summer to prepare for the upcoming school year.
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Saturday Jul 01, 2023
Saturday Jul 01, 2023
In this episode, Billy and Annie discuss how the personal journey of a heart transplant has affected their teaching and directing during the last school year.
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Saturday Sep 10, 2022
Saturday Sep 10, 2022
This is an our Monthly Professional Development with Educational Theatre Consultants. We've had many requests to republish is for you. In this episode, Billy explains the process for cutting a play for contest.
Educational Theatre Consultants
Get theatre related PD each month, a community of theatre educators with whom you can share, and access to our online classes. For $35 a month, tax fee, your school can invest in your Theatre professional development.
https://educational-theatre-consultants.mn.co/
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
Welcome back to our Redo of Season 3 of Afterpiece: A Podcast About Educational Theatre with Billy and Annie Dragoo.
We want to invite you to be part of our new online community. Annie and I have created an online Professional Learning Community just for theatre educators called EdTC. The Educational Theatre Community.
This online PLC is so great. We offer the following:
We post, answer polls and questions, write down ideas, join events, and direct message each other. These things make this community richer and more valuable for each of us.
For $35 per month you will get
- Receive one professional development session each month.
- Receive access to a Health & Wellness for Theatre Educators Webinar each month.
- Receive access to our two most popular professional development courses.
- Find a little inspiration, thought-provoking conversations, and expert perspective each and every day.
- Get access to lesson plans, activities, and directing techniques.
- Weekly Live Q&A Online Happy Hours
If you want to join us, you can take a trial fun for a few days. Check the Show notes for links!
To join EdTC: https://educational-theatre-consultants.mn.co/
In this Episode, Billy and has an in-depth conversation with Kelly Russell about his 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers.
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Wednesday Sep 29, 2021
Wednesday Sep 29, 2021
Welcome back to Season 3 of Afterpiece: A Podcast About Educational Theatre with Billy and Annie Dragoo.
We want to invite you to be part of our new online community. Annie and I have created an online Professional Learning Community just for theatre educators called EdTC. The Educational Theatre Community.
This online PLC is so great. We offer the following:
We post, answer polls and questions, write down ideas, join events, and direct message each other. These things make this community richer and more valuable for each of us.
For $35 per month you will get
- Receive one professional development session each month.
- Receive access to a Health & Wellness for Theatre Educators Webinar each month.
- Receive access to our two most popular professional development courses.
- Find a little inspiration, thought-provoking conversations, and expert perspective each and every day.
- Get access to lesson plans, activities, and directing techniques.
- Weekly Live Q&A Online Happy Hours
If you want to join us, you can take a trial fun for a few days. Check the Show notes for links!
Today we are going to talk about four hybrid activities that we’ve developed for our students to do while online and in person.
- Theatre II Write an absurdist play
- Musical Playwriting
- Theatre III/IV Spoon River
- Audition Notebooks and Portfolios
To join EdTC: https://educational-theatre-consultants.mn.co/share/tiGEdrfoXa7z-Ora?flow=facebook&utm_source=manual
In this Episode, Billy and Annie discuss verbatim theatre and offer some ways it works in a theatre program.
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Sunday Apr 18, 2021
Sunday Apr 18, 2021
This episode features our EdTC Professional Development webinar on cutting a play for competition. We hope it helps you as we repost it from 2020.
We hope you will join our Professional Learning Community.
https://educational-theatre-consultants.mn.co/
Let us know if you have any questions.
Sunday Apr 04, 2021
Sunday Apr 04, 2021
Billy and Annie share how they began a summer theatre camp. Since 2005, Camp Red Dragon, have been a source of revenue and program building.
Use this google folder to access the documents referenced in the episode.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1w8g2dQ-2VEo-jEgC1jix9H5Uc6OBDory?usp=sharing
Join EdTC - a Professional Learning Community for Theatre Educators
www.EducationalTheatreConsultants.com
Friday Feb 19, 2021
Friday Feb 19, 2021
We want to invite you to be part of our new online community. Annie and I have created an online Professional Learning Community just for theatre educators called EdTC. The Educational Theatre Community.
We post, answer polls and questions, write down ideas, join events, and direct message each other. These things make this community richer and more valuable for each of us.
For $35 per month you will get
- Receive one professional development session each month.
- Receive access to a Health & Wellness for Theatre Educators Webinar each month.
- Receive access to our two most popular professional development courses.
- Find a little inspiration, thought-provoking conversations, and expert perspective each and every day.
- Get access to lesson plans, activities, and directing techniques.
- Weekly Live Q&A Online Happy Hours
https://community.educationaltheatreconsultants.com/share/tiGEdrfoXa7z-Ora?utm_source=manual
Our February PD will be Sunday, February 21, at 7 pm CST. If you want to join us, you can take a trial fun for a few days. Check the Show notes for links!
www.EducationalTheatreConsultants.com
Saturday Dec 26, 2020
Saturday Dec 26, 2020
Many of you know that we have a business called Educational Theatre Consultants. We teach professional development, do one-act play clinics, write lesson plans, and offer help to theatre educators. With this new development, we realized that it is time to take our business to the next level, so we are taking it all online.
Have you ever sat through an in-service or professional development workshop that didn’t help you at all? We all know that feeling, so we are creating an online Theatre Professional Learning Community, and we are calling it EdTC Community.
We're really excited about it because at this point in our careers we find ourselves wanting to work with teachers. I mean, we love our students, but we have 59 years of experience, and we really enjoy sharing it with other educators. It will launch January 1, 2021. We are going online and want to give Afterpiece listeners the first chance to check it out with a free trial during the holiday break.
With this community membership, you will get
- A professional development webinar each month
- A health & wellness session each month
- Access to lesson plans & guest speakers
- Q & A Happy Hours
- Access to our two most popular online classes
- And most importantly, A professional learning community for sharing ideas and asking advice
We hope you will click on the link below:
We know you're going to benefit greatly from being a part of the EdTC Community. You can learn from us, you can learn from other members, AND, most importantly, you can offer your stories, experiences, and ideas to help other theatre educators. AND YOUR SCHOOL AND PAY FOR IT; it's tax fee.
A few things you’ll see quickly that make Educational Theatre Consultants different:
It’s Ours. As we build this community together, we have some great features for creating exclusive content, deeper conversations, richer polls, and online or live events. Plus, by building this community of social media, you can have a more efficient and valuable experience with us and each other.
There are More Ways for You to Meet Each Other. There are more ways for you to meet people who are near you, who fall into the same categories, or who care about the same topics. You can’t get this in free groups or on a website elsewhere.
We Can Bring Together Content and Community. By merging content with community, we are able to provide fresh ideas and new practices that you can take into your daily life
We hope you will join us while we all take a holiday break. We will be back with our next episode on January 3, 2021
If you have any comments or questions, please reach out. “Make sure to visit our website, for show notes and links. You can also subscribe to the show in iTunes Google Play, Stitcher, and Podbean. If you found value in this show we’d appreciate a rating on your favorite podcast app – or if you’d simply tell a friend about the show, that would help us out, too.
Thanks for listening. We’ll be back after the new year. Until then . . . excellencia consuetudo est
Sunday Dec 06, 2020
Sunday Dec 06, 2020
Rod Caspers: Creative Director, Stage Director, Producer, Writer, Teacher, Speaker Coach and Event Specialist
Rod conducts directing and curriculum development workshops throughout the nation and on repeated occasions served as a guest artist/instructor for the Facing History and Ourselves Program in Switzerland, as well as in the Czech Republic. He has adjudicated the University of Texas Interscholastic League’s One-Act Play Contest for over twenty years, including the State Contests in Class 6-A, 4-A, 3-A and 1-A.
Today, our episode is brought to you by OneHope Wines.
This holiday season we’re coming together to support families with special needs children. Due to the pandemic, children with special needs are facing both school closures and disruptions to their in-person therapy sessions, making this time even harder on them and their families. That’s why we’re creating holiday grants where select families will receive:
- Funding for special needs therapy resources
- A catered holiday dinner by a locally-owned restaurant
- A fulfilled holiday wish list
- A family holiday outdoor photoshoot with a local photographer
Families who are interested in applying can share their story with us by filling out this link: https://onehopewine8.typeform.com/to/ciVeE5iF
The ONEHOPE Foundation is funding 5 grants. If you’d like to help us fund even more, you can shop our fundraiser where 10% of every purchase supports this meaningful cause. Thank you for helping us give a little holiday magic to these deserving families in need.
Annie & I are proud of the impact we’ve been able to make by purchasing our wine from OneHope. It’s really amazing to be part of a movement to make giving back part of what you do every day.
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This week, our episode is also sponsored by YogaClub.com. As a
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