What's On Stage Performances for School Groups
Our 2024-2025 season of live dance, music, and theater performances at the Kennedy Center, programed specifically for K-12 students.
Education at the Kennedy Center
Kennedy Center Education
Resources and experiences that inspire, excite, and empower students and young artists, plus the tools and connections to help educators incorporate the arts into classrooms of all types.
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Uplift the Classroom Resources for Educators
Professional development workshops and webinars for educators; partnership programs with schools local and nationwide; and our Digital Resources Library of lesson plans, classroom best practices, and arts-focused media.
Nurture Talent Opportunities for Artists
èßäAVAmerican College Theatre Festival; intensive programs of study with the NSO and WNO; masterclasses with visiting ballet and modern dance companies; as well as internship, fellowship, and competitive opportunites.
Evolve & Grow Research, Networks, & Conferences
Conferences and convenings; local, national, and international networks of schools and educators; recognitions programs; and leadership in research and resources in the the arts and accessibility.
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Kennedy Center Education Highlights
Educator Professional Development
Current Topics in Arts Integration
Current approaches to arts integration in the classroom, inclusion, rigor, and adopting an arts integration approach at the school and district level.
Online Course
The Theory and Practice of Anti-Ableist Arts Education
An asynchronous online course that invites educators and administrators to think about our students’ disabilities as social and cultural identities that enrich our classrooms and communities.
Student Activities
Fall Arts Education
Explore a variety of fun arts-based activities with these resources from Kennedy Center Education.
More Kennedy Center Education Highlights
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Media Drop Me Off In Harlem
In this interactive microsite, meet the artists, writers, dancers, musicians, activists, philosophers, and patrons of the Harlem Renaissance between the years of 1917 and 1935. Explore how this period in our country's cultural evolution was documented through art, literature, journalism, theater, and film.
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Interactive Experience Perfect Pitch
Take the field and learn the looks, sounds, history, and notable players of orchestral instruments from four eras—baroque, classical, romantic and modern. Next, use the interactive audio mixer to choose your players and hear them perform together. Finally, test your musical knowledge with a fun baseball-style quiz.
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Interactive Experience Whack-A-Note
Try your hand at sight-reading and note identification in this fun, interactive, musical carnival game! Get your username on the leader board and amaze your teachers and friends!
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Moonshot@Home Activity In Your Face: Portrait Photography
A portrait is an image, usually of a person. A portrait tells the viewer a story about the person in the image by the choices the portrait’s creator makes. In this media activity, we’ll explore the impact of those choices, focusing on the subject, setting, and story of your portrait.
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Behind the Scenes What I Do
How do artists make decisions about what audiences see and hear on stage? What I Do explores the behind the scenes decisions through eyes of the artists who make them.
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Kennedy Center Education
The Vice President of Education is generously endowed by the
A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation.
Generous support for educational programs at the Kennedy Center is provided by the U.S. Department of Education.
Gifts and grants to educational programs at the Kennedy Center are provided by The Paul M. Angell Family Foundation; Bank of America; Capital One; The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; Carnegie Corporation of New York; The Ednah Root Foundation; Harman Family Foundation; William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust; the Kimsey Endowment; The Kiplinger Foundation; Laird Norton Family Foundation; Lois and Richard England Family Foundation; Dr. Gary Mather and Ms. Christina Co Mather; The Markow Totevy Foundation; Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation; The Morningstar Foundation; Myra and Leura Younker Endowment Fund; The Irene Pollin Audience Development and Community Engagement Initiatives;
Prince Charitable Trusts; Dr. Deborah Rose and Dr. Jan A. J. Stolwijk; Rosemary Kennedy Education Fund; The Embassy of the United Arab Emirates; The Victory Foundation; The Volgenau Foundation; Volkswagen Group of America; Jackie Washington; GRoW @ Annenberg and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten and Family; Wells Fargo; and generous contributors to the Abe Fortas Memorial Fund and by a major gift to the fund from the late Carolyn E. Agger, widow of Abe Fortas. Additional support is provided by the National Committee for the Performing Arts..
The content of these programs may have been developed under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education but does not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education. You should not assume endorsement by the federal government.