A Playwriting Unit or How to Help Your Students Feel Seen

A Playwriting Lesson or How to Help Your Students Feel Seen Today, let’s talk about a playwriting unit to help your students feel seen. I’m old enough to remember the days in school when we wrote notes to our friends. Most of the time they were pretty innocent. Occasionally, they seemed very important–asking a friend […]
Drama Lessons for Families Who are Home-Bound

Drama Lessons for Families Who are Home-Bound Tick, tock, tick, tock……. Is it only Wednesday? Have you worn out the Play-dough, grown frustrated by the board game, broke the new cool toy, gained five pounds by baking chocolate chip cookies and just can’t make one more blanket fort? Families: Have you exhausted your ideas […]
Middle School Drama Lessons from a Veteran Drama Teacher

Middle School Drama Lessons from a Veteran Drama Teacher Hello! You may not know me or be familiar with my work. I’m Deborah Baldwin (but my friends call me Deb.) I am a recently retired award winning drama teacher of thirty-eight years. In that time, I directed over 300 plays and musicals with students and […]
Creative Dramatics Lessons from an Award Winning Drama Teacher

Creative Dramatics Lessons from an Award Winning Drama Teacher Hello! You may not know me or be familiar with my work. I’m Deborah Baldwin (but my friends call me Deb.) I am a recently retired award-winning drama teacher of thirty-eight years. At that time, I directed over 250 plays and musicals with students and adults […]
National Haiku Day Bumbling Bea Style

You gotta wonder who thinks up these national days….
CHERRY BLOSSOMS
When I think of Haiku, I think of gorgeous flowering trees in Japan. I’m sure there are poets who write them without thinking like I do.