Acting Right: Building a Cooperative, Collaborative, Creative Classroom Community Through Drama

Acting Right is the leading work on using drama to teach behavior. This step-by-step approach integrates engaging aspects of drama with effective elements of classroom management to empower students to take ownership of and be responsible for their own behavior. Used in classrooms across the country, these strategies help create the behavioral literacy necessary for students to concentrate, cooperate, collaborate and establish a sense of calm, focus, and balance in the classroom.

Sean Layne is the founder of Focus 5, Inc., an arts education consulting company providing professional learning opportunities to schools, school districts, performing arts centers, arts organizations, and museums around the country. Sean has worked in the field of arts integration for 30 years. He is a national teaching artist for The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, DC. He designs arts integration training seminars for teaching artists for The Kennedy Center and is also a course leader and arts coach for their Changing Education Through the Arts program. For over a decade Sean was a professional actor as well as a Master Artist for the Wolf Trap Institute Early Learning Through the Arts program.

"Acting Right completely changed the way I teach." Carrie Chinners, fourth grade teacher

"The Acting Right approach shows us how to create the calm, centeredness, and balance that students need in order to be able to access the curriculum." Wintson Cox, principal

"On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd say it's an 11." Rae Takemoto, arts integration curriculum coordinator

"Our students are no longer passive." Sonia Aramburo, principal and Sam Tidwell, first grade teacher

"With this work students are empowered when they know that they have choice." Melanie Rick, national Acting Right consultant