Digital Teaching Institute for K-12 Humanities Instruction

FAIN: AH-275809-20

George Street Playhouse, Inc. (New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1903)
Jim Jack (Project Director: May 2020 to October 2021)

Maintaining current staff and retaining regular summer contracts to create live and pre-recorded digital learning resources for K-12 students as well as professional development for teachers who use those resources.

George Street Playhouse proposes a five-day Digital Teaching Institute for up to 50 teachers to devise and deliver digital humanities content for K-12 learners. Offered at no cost to participants, the Institute would provide teachers with the technical knowledge and arts integration skills to effectively develop and deliver K-12 humanities digital units of study. Resources will be shared with fellow educators throughout New Jersey and across the country. Ongoing professional development for participating Institute teachers would continue through December 2020. Funding for this initiative will avert furloughs for two full-time members and one part-time member of GSP’s education department for 10 weeks, and allow us to contract four part-time teaching artists for five weeks.