Acting, Learning and Change: Creating Original Plays with Adolescents

Mandell and Wolf offer a highly practical model of teacher research as well as a detailed method of performing arts education.

Jennifer Lynn Wolf taught high school English and drama for 15 years in the public schools of California. She is currently a doctoral student at Stanford University, where she studies issues in arts education and teacher professional development.

JAN MANDELL has taught high school drama for more than 20 years in St. Paul, Minnesota. In addition to classroom teaching, she directs The Central Touring Theater Company, which tours student-created plays throughout Minnesota and the Midwest.