Dramatizing a text provides ENL (English as a New Language) students with an authentic framework for speaking, as well as opportunities for them to develop critical and reflective language. This workshop will present: simple theater games to build student confidence in speaking and build community; text-based tools to support students’ vocal expressiveness; and dialogue-based and creative problem-solving activities that structure opportunities for students to speak.

Register now for this dynamic workshop developed for teachers of all ages and experience levels. Tickets are limited to the first 50 people who sign up.

Kati Koerner has been the Director of Education at Lincoln Center Theater since 2002. Before coming to LCT, she taught drama at the Commonwealth School, an independent high school in Boston. From 1998 to 2000, she served as Education Partnerships Coordinator at The Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis. Koerner was Co-chair of the New York City Arts in Education Roundtable, a service organization for the arts education community from 2011-2017 and continues to serve on their board of directors and co-chair their annual conference. In 2005, she was a member of the committee that created the New York City Blueprint for Teaching & Learning in the Arts: Theater for the New York City Department of Education. She has worked extensively as a director, translator and teaching artist in the U.S. and in Germany. Koerner is a native New Yorker with a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA in drama and theater for youth from the University of Texas at Austin. She has been on the faculty at Juilliard since 2015.

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