ACTAA Arkansas Communication & Theatre Arts Association
Summer Workshop will focus on ACTAA Strategic Planning, and of course Professional Development hours (coordinated by Janetta Carney and Dawn Tucker)!  Dates are July 15 and 16 at Russellville High School.  For more info contact Mary M Richardson, richardson@hendrix.edu
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Arkansas Speech and Debate Institute will be held at UA-Monticello July 22-27. Click for more information.
 
Our Fall conference will be on September 13-15 in Hot Springs.  For more info contact dawn.tucker@jonesboroschools.net.

Demo Day will be September 22, 2012 at Henderson State University.  More info to come!

Upcoming this Summer

Name: Natural State Debate Institute

What: Two Week Policy Debate Camp,  featuring: a structured schedule, specific learning focuses, a staff comprised of qualified, Arkansas-natives , students will receive  two tournaments worth of practice rounds, as well as, evidence produced by camp members. They will do all of this in a rigorous, but enjoyable, college atmosphere. Debaters will stay in the dorms of UALR.

Where: University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas

When: July 1 – July 15 (students will leave the 15th and arrive the 1st)

Website: www.naturalstatedebate.com



Additional Teacher PD opportunity: 

TheatreSquared Professional Development Institute

At the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute on Petit Jean Mountain

Activated Learning through the Arts

Summer Seminar: July 6-9, 2012
Location: Winthrop Rockefeller Institute at Petit Jean, Morrilton, Arkansas
Credit: 24 hours of professional development credit

conferred through the University of Arkansas
Cost: $400 - Residential, Single Occupancy (Private room for three nights . Includes all meals)

$300 - Non-Residential (Includes all meals) 
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Upcoming Tournaments


Revised tournament ballots for 2011-2012, as well as the AAA event sanctioning form, can also be found on the Tournaments page.

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ACTAA is a professional non-profit organization that serves the students and teachers of Oral Communication, Debate, Forensic Activities, Theatre, and Dance in Arkansas! 

Its purpose shall be to establish oral communication, debate, dance, and theatre art standards and to encourage communication/theatre art education and scholarship on the elementary, secondary, and college and university levels.

 

Mission Statement

 

The Arkansas Communication and Theatre Arts Association

is a community of professionals devoted to the rigorous study and ethical practice of oral

communication, debate, dance, and theatre arts as an essential discipline, life skill, and art form as components of the core curriculum. Through continuing teacher education, student participation, and scholarly publication the association supports the efforts and continued growth of communication and theatre arts teachers, students, and researchers.

ACTAA offers professional development to educators in the areas of, but are not limited to, instructional strategies, lesson plan sharing, building and maintaining a collaborative learning environment, parental involvement, principles of learning, college forums, debate forums, competitive speech forums, curriculum alignment, mentoring/coaching, advocacy and leadership in communication, theatre arts and humanities, and cognitive research.

Upcoming events

09 Sep 2011 • ACTAA Website
15 Jul 2012 • Russellville High School, Center for the Arts
13 Sep 2012 5:00 AM • The Arlington Hotel, Hot Springs, AR

 

Arkansas Communication and Theatre Arts Association

 
 
 

ACTAA:  Arkansas Communication and Theatre Arts Association is a non-profit professional organization serving educators of Oral Communication, Debate, Forensics, Theatre Arts, and Dance in Arkansas.

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