Introduction
Part 1: A Teaching Artist Reflects
Chapter 1: The Teaching Artist
Chapter 2: Reflective Practice
Part 2: Collected Wisdom
Chapter 3: Intentionality
Intentionality Case Studies
Learning to listen: Lessons for Teaching Artists from a Minneapolis mosque - Sarah Myers
Stories of my life: A Teaching Artist reflects on cultural consciousness - Roxanne Schroeder-Arce
Devised performance in a gender-specific juvenile probation program - Amanda Hashagen
Audition notice(d): Taking steps to align mission and admission - Lisa M. Barker
Remaking how a site is perceived and experienced: The ghosts of Waller Creek Project - Michelle Dahlenburg
Chapter 4: Quality
Quality Case Studies
What does quality theatre for young audiences look like? - Tamara Goldbogen
Suit My Heart: Staging foster youth narratives that hit home - Michelle Hayford
How do we find relevance? - Gary Minyard
On both shores: Teaching across personal/political distance - Nicole Gurgel
Balancing artistic and language-learning goals in Lincoln Center Theater's Learning English and Drama Project - Kati Koerner
Chapter 5: Artistic Perspective
Artistic Perspective Case Studies
Developing 'dramatic metaphor' to teach concepts of science - Jo Beth Gonzalez
The art of relationship: Intergenerational theatre - Marsha Gildin
Bridging the divide with Shakespeare: Theatre as moral education in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Andrew Garrod
Dramaturgy by students - Carol T. (Jones) Schwartz and Kim Bowers-Rheay-Baran
What's Happened to Queen Fancy Fish? Deconstructing an applied theatre lesson for the early childhood classroom - Karina Naumer
Chapter 6: Assessment
Assessment Case Studies
Capturing the story: A Teaching Artist's attempt to assess a documentary theatre project in rural Alaska - Ryan Conarro
The applications of theatre as pedagogical and research methodologies: Scenes and waves of investigative dialogues across the Nordsjoen (North Sea) - Heli Aaltonen and Stephanie Knight
Engaging the outliers: One theatre educator's journey to reach her most challenging students through choice, rigor and empowerment - Tracy Kane
Reflection as a bridge between program evaluation and instruction - Cory Wilkerson and Jennifer Ridgway
Naming our learning along the way through arts-based assessment - Bridget Kiger Lee
Chapter 7: Praxis
Praxis Case Studies
The vagabond's dilemma: Representing host culture as a guest - Jamie Simpson Steele
Activating community: Process-centered philosophy in a product-oriented world - Gillian McNally
Playing at praxis: Locating youth voices in history - Megan Alrutz
Enacting liderazgo: Where drama praxis and Latino leadership intersect - Christina Marin
Essentializing residencies: Collecting trophies of the oppressed - Peter B. Duffy
Part 3: The Reflexive Practitioner
Chapter 8: Participatory Action Research
Final Reflections