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Are you looking for new resources to enhance the study of English Language Arts (ELA), Theatre, and the Performing Arts across your school district?
Digital Theatre+ is the ultimate tool for teachers and students in grades 6-12, providing unlimited access to test-relevant productions, poetry recitals, documentaries, and thousands of time-saving instructional resources.
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How does Digital Theatre+ support teachers, students and librarians across Texas?
Click the area you are most interested in below and discover how Digital Theatre+ will be a game-changing cross-curricular resource for Middle and High Schools in your district. Ready to learn more? Jump straight to purchasing information to get started.
Why do teachers in Texas love Digital Theatre+?
"It takes a lot of time to find suitable material to extend student learning – Digital Theatre+ does that for me. Invaluable!" - Head of English, The Village School, Texas
Want a more detailed testimonial? Find out why Assistant Director of Fine Arts, Lewisville Independent School District said "I cannot believe I taught for 28 years without this type of tool.”
Aligned to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and designed to help students prepare for the UIL Prose and Poetry Competitions
From engaging productions to dynamic poetry recitals, Digital Theatre+ provides English teachers with a range of high-quality instructional tools to bring texts to life.. Access our range of curriculum-aligned resources to help your students develop the skills and understanding essential to the study of English. Click on the buttons below to learn more!
Connect students with key texts using captivating productions and literary adaptations of widely-taught ELA texts such as Macbeth, All My Sons, Crucible, Romeo and Juliet, and Antigone.
Build contextual understanding of key writers and their work with exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes documentaries, and compare and contrast videos.
Strengthen core skills such as speaking and listening, comprehension, and critical thinking with bite-sized e-learning videos and key scene analysis.
Save crucial planning time and support independent, classroom, or flipped learning with flexible resources to suit multiple learning approaches and teaching styles. Check out examples of SEN resources available.
Top resource picks for teaching ELA
Compare & Contrast
Compare and Contrast is a series that brings together key scenes and soliloquies from the productions of key texts to inspire analysis. Featuring videos covering key speeches, characters, theme, and so much more!
Speaking & Listening
Support students to speak confidently and effectively with bite-sized videos designed to develop crucial speaking and listening skills, while ready-to-go worksheets encourage students to extend their learning.
Speeches & Soliloquies
Analyze the text and compare different interpretations of key speeches with a series of excerpts from Shakespeare's speeches and soliloquies, from Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" to Macbeth's "Is this a dagger which I see before me".
Poetry in Action
Bring poetry to life with engaging recitals of key poems for your curriculum, including poems from Indigenous, Latine and Black voices. Access insightful videos, alongside supporting contextual resources.
Aligned to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and designed to help students prepare for UIL One-Act Play and UIL Theatrical Design Competitions
With a range of engaging instructional tools on key practitioners, genres and styles, paired with the world's best performances, you can be confident that teachers and students in your district will have high-quality, standards-aligned resources to develop key theatrical skills. Click a button below to find out more!
Top Benefits for using Digital Theatre+ to teach Theatre
Connect students with high-quality performances from around the world with productions from our key partners including BroadwayHD, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the BBC.
Develop core theatrical skills across key areas of study such as acting, design, directing, and playwriting with specially designed e-learning videos, exclusive workshops, and more.
Boost engagement with the creative industries using exclusive behind-the-scenes insights from professional actors, writers, directors and designers to increase career and life readiness.
Save crucial planning time with flexible, ready-to-go lesson plans, practical activities and assessment strategies designed to suit any teaching and learning style.
Top resource picks for teaching Theatre
BroadwayHD Collection
Get front-row access to show-stopping musicals and gripping dramas on Digital Theatre+, the exclusive educational partner of BroadwayHD. Plus, unique supporting resources help extend students’ knowledge of key productions and keep them engaged.
Technical Theatre
From stage management and operations to lighting and set design, with Digital Theatre+ you’ll be able to give your students everything they need to deepen their understanding of technical theatre, create and develop their own work, and take the first steps into a career behind-the-scenes.
Spotlight On
Provide younger learners with insight into key topics in theatre – including The Production Team, Shakespeare, World Theatre, and Theatre Foundations – with a series of short, accessible e-learning videos and student-facing graphic organizers.
Discover, Explore, Assess
Unpack the productions you’re watching with the Discover, Explore, Assess packs, which include practical teaching and learning materials to help develop knowledge and understanding of key texts such as Romeo and Juliet, Peter Pan, The Wind in the Willows, and more.
Access anytime, anywhere, and on any device
Digitize your library with innovative technology resources for cross-curricular study
Libraries like yours can bring the best resources to students, with IP-authenticated campus-wide access, single sign-on including EZ/Shibboleth, and MARC Records.
With your subscription, you'll receive a customized welcome package full of guidance, access to our video training library, promotional materials, and more!
Our dedicated Customer Success team is also available to help you throughout your subscription. Plus, you get access to COUNTER-compliant reports so you can monitor your institution's usage.
Top resource picks for your libraries
Graphic Novels
With Othello, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet, (or any other of your favorite Shakespeare plays), we have a unique and innovative way for students to connect with the stories: Manga Shakespeare. In addition, we also have other graphic novels from literary icons such as Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde.
Documentaries
We have a vast selection of documentaries that can be used across multiple subjects. These include: the BBC Bookmark series which explores the cultural impact of famous novels, novellas and poetry; "Surviving surviving", a moving Holocaust survivor documentary; and A History of Dance on Screen.
Key Concepts
The Key Concepts series offers a range of short and accessible e-learning videos designed to introduce students to essential theatrical disciplines. The series includes episodes on theatre design, playwrights, Greek theatre and more!
Supporting students in the classroom and beyond
In addition to supporting crucial Theatre and English skills, your teachers will also have access to a range of resources to help students develop key career and life skills. Digital Theatre+ has a wide range of cross-curricular resources to benefit many subjects such as ELA, Theatre, History, Music, Dance, Social Studies, Politics, Theory of knowledge and more…
Purchasing ideas for Texas
There are many ways to fund a Digital Theatre+ subscription, as a cross-curricular resource you can purchase via ELA, Theatre, or Library Media budgets. Digital Theatre+ also aligns with the spending requirements of many grants and funds such as Title I, II, III, IV or ESSER.
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