There’s no business like show business.

• Enhance language arts skills.
• Tap into your student’s natural creativity.
• Encourage reading through the use of drama and puppetry.
• Act out social studies, science, and math projects.
• Use drama as a writing tool.
• Emphasize multicultural diversity through plays and storytelling.
• Encourage students to develop speech writing and presentation.
• History Fair will come alive using drama for performance.
• Motivate creative book reports.
• Introduce classical literature in bite-sizes.
• Use drama to tie your current lesson plans to national and state standards.
• Cover performance skills for classroom or specialized programs.
• Strengthen teamwork, critical thinking skills, oral fluency, and confidence in students.
• Prepare costumes and sets on a limited budget. Turn what you have into what you don’t have.

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Background Drama specialist / consultant Jean Odom has an extensive background in both professional theater and drama education. She has served for fourteen years as a drama teacher in a public magnet arts school and teaches seven hundred and twenty students weekly, Kindergarten through fifth grade. Her knowledge of integrating the arts with academics is extensive. Instrumental in the start up of the magnet program, her application of theater skills has been ongoing and evolving into a first rate drama/academics curricula. Ms. Odom performed in both the British and American theater for over forty years. She has served as director for full scale plays and musicals in community theater for the past 25 years. Ms. Odom's achievements include: Designing an original curriculum from the inception of a pioneering dramatic arts program for 198 students through to its current level of over 700 students weekly. Developing materials to introduce studies through drama for the instruction of the Holocaust in the fifth grade and tolerance studies in K-4. Giving annual workshops for the Holocaust Institute in Tallahassee to show how the various aspects of drama can be used in covering highly sensitive material. Wrote the script, designed the puppets, and trained the puppeteers for the Coca Cola / Reading is Fundamental Caravan puppet show 2000/03. The Caravan toured throughout American for three years. Two-time recipient of the Arts Council of Northwest Florida Vera Award for dramatic direction and work with schools and community theater. Bravo / Cox Cable award for integrating arts and academics. Instrumental in the success of numerous group and individual History Fair awards. Trained numerous winners for the 4H / Tropicana Speech Contest from the county and state level including statewide winner. Teacher of the Year 2003-2004 for N.B. Cook Elementary School in Pensacola, Fl.

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Workshops include:

• Speech Preparation, Writing, and Presentation
• How teachers can Integrate Drama/Academics from Elementary to College levels
• How to Produce Shows for a Full Grade Level in the Shortest Time and Limited Budgets
• Mount a School-Wide Academic Production with Ease
• Build a Successful After-School Drama Club
• Puppet Workshops from Writing to Performance
• Marionettes and puppet theaters
• Accommodations for ESE and Gifted Students

All of these workshops are hands on with practical ideas and resources.