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How We Are Unique
LONG TERM Opening Act believes that tremendous value comes when students can participate in an ongoing artistic space. More than getting a taste of the arts – we give our students to have the opportunity to dive in. The continuity of our program impacts the entire school community which knows their school participates in a special artistic opportunity.
CONSISTENT HIGH LEVEL OF INSTRUCTION To ensure that our teaching artists have the mastery and leadership skills they need to guarantee a successful program, we select only the highest quality teaching artists and provide long term rigorous training to each one.
GOING WHERE THERE IS A NEED We reach out to schools with a combination of low reading scores, low graduation rates and evident lack of theater programming. And we stay only as long as we are needed; when teachers we collaborate with feel strong enough to lead a program on their own, we move on – to the next school where students don’t have a stage – but continue to offer support to schools that “graduate” from Opening Act as they need it.
HIGHLY COST EFFECTIVE and FREE We invest our resources into excellent instruction and not much else, making our programs professional and highly cost effective. We offer our programs free to partnering schools, guaranteeing that regardless of fluctuating budgets, we are there for our students. |
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Nicholas at the Opening Act Holiday Party in Manhattan. December 2005
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