How can drama and the arts reshape classrooms, empower teachers, and foster meaningful learning? Drama for Schools and Beyond: Transformative Learning Through the Arts explores two decades of research and practice from the Drama for Schools professional development model at The University of Texas at Austin. Through real-world stories, critical reflections, and global case studies, the authors reveal how arts integration can create more equitable, engaged, and inquiry-driven educational spaces.
This work is both a practical guide and a call to action for educators, teaching artists, and administrators seeking to transform learning environments. By centering collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking, it challenges readers to examine their roles in shaping the future of education. Suitable for those invested in humane, democratic, and arts-based approaches to teaching, Drama for Schools and Beyond proves that learning through the arts is not just an enhancement—it’s a revolution.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Drama for Schools
1. What is Drama for Schools?
2. Planting Seeds, Establishing Roots: Drama for Schools Alaska
3. Transformative Professional Learning in Arts Integration
Part 2: Three Stories of Transformation in Texas
Introduction
4. Systems Change Transformation Story (Where)
5. Constructivism Transformation Story (How)
6. Social Justice Transformation Story (Why)
Conclusion
Part 3: Teachers Transforming Education from Within
Introduction
7. Teachers as Researchers
8. Teachers as Artists
9. Teachers as Collaborators
10. Teachers as Agents of Change
Learning Forward
Part 4: Transformative Coalitions of Students and Teachers
Introduction
11. The Student Learning Community in South Australia
12. The Student Teacher Learning Community in Texas
Learning Forward
Epilogue
Appendices
Index
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