Welcome to the Teacher’s PLAYbook
Building connection, collaboration & creativity in your classroom through play.
Creative drama games are a fun, fast and effective way to teach important social and emotional skills. They’re easy to implement in your busy classroom (most take no more than 5-10 minutes) and are perfect for morning circle time, brain breaks or optimistic closure.
The games are easy to learn and play - no theater experience required! But they pack a powerful punch in helping students learn empathy, teamwork, emotional literacy, creative thinking and more.
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The Book
Don't miss the book teachers are calling "a must-have" and "a one-stop shop"! Character Kids helps students develop social and emotional skills through fun, fast and effective creative drama games.
Perfect for morning circle, optimistic closure or brain breaks - no prep (or theater experience) required! Students will learn empathy, emotional literacy, teamwork and creative thinking while having a lot of fun!
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The Digital Course
Our digital course is designed exclusively for educators like you who want to inspire, engage and empower their students while building lasting connections in the classroom. Each mini-lesson includes no-prep, easy to implement creative drama games that will help your students build important social and emotional skills.
Take the first step toward a more creative and connected classroom today!"
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PD Workshop
Creative drama helps students develop creative thinking skills, empathy, teamwork and a positive self image. Our Professional Development Workshop helps educators learn creative drama activities that are easy to implement in the classroom and will help their students cultivate important life skills in a fun & engaging way.
Our workshops are customizable to meet your school or district's needs.
“Using this resource is what students will remember about your classroom - the empowerment, the confidence, the self-awareness, and most importantly, the joy of being part of a strong community.”
- Lindsay C., 3rd grade teacher
Brenda Dodge is a children’s theatre director, producer and teaching artist. For over 20 years, she has worked with public and private schools, community centers, youth theaters, summer camp programs and park districts to create quality theatre education programs for students of all ages.
Brenda is also a professional actress who has worked in theatre, commercials and television throughout the Midwest and Southern California.
In 2008 she created Character Kids, a children's theatre company that provides after school theatre classes to elementary schools and advocates for arts in education. Brenda has worked in close collaboration with classroom teachers, administrators and parents in dozens of school districts throughout the country.
Brenda has a degree in Theatre, with a minor in mass communication, from Illinois State University. She resides in Franklin, WI with her husband and two children.
