The Eliot School for Fine and Applied Arts, Open Door Arts, and Wheelock Family Theatre are partnering to support teaching artists through a summer intensive professional development series called Supporting the Processing of Experiences through the Arts during COVID (SPEAC) that specifically caters to the current needs of K-12 students and teachers.

SPEAC is a 4 week summer intensive designed to prepare teaching artists to guide students through online and in person arts education that effectively supports students to process and express their lived experiences due to the current health crisis, ongoing racial injustice, and the racial awakening and opposition in society, therefore working toward personal and community transformation.