The following resources may involve a fee:
Adventure Theater Inc.
Contact: Carol Leahy, President
Phone Number: 301/320-5331
Fax: 301/320-3108
Address: Glen Echo Park 7300 MacArthur Blvd. Glen Echo, MD 20812
Web site: www.adventuretheater.org
Email: adventuretheatre@starpower.net
Summary: Theater for children
Program Description: Adventure Theater is the Washington area's longest running children's theater, presenting imaginative stagings of fables, fairy tales and popular stories, musicals and children's classics using live actors and puppets. The theater is located in the old arcade building and holds about 192 persons. Performances are 45 to 75 minutes in length, on Saturdays and Sundays and most shows are for ages 4 and up.
Center for Inspired Teaching
Contact: Aleta Margolis
Phone: 202-822-8081
Fax/Website: 202/822-0088 / www.artistryinteaching.org
Address: 1421 22nd St., N.W. Washington, DC 20037
Summary: CAT is a non profit educational organization working to make positive and permanent change in schools.
Program Description: Through four programs, Workshop in the Art of Teaching, the Professional Development Academy, Summer STEP: Student and Teaching Enrichment Project and Reading Works! - CAT works with teachers, children and community members to make D.C. public schools institutions of which we can all be proud. Programs also serve as models for effective grassroots school reform elsewhere in the country.
Program Provides: Training for teachers through CAT's method of discovery teaching and learning. Program is not limited to D.C. public schools, but is available to child care centers as well.
Fee: Yes, but funding is available.
The Children's Foundation
Contact: Kay Hollestelle
Phone Number: 202 347-3300
website:www.childrensfoundation.net
Fax/Email: 202 347-3382 / info@childrensfoundation.net
Address: 725 15th Street, NW, Suite 505, Washington, D.C. 20005
Summary: The mission of CF is to improve the lives of children and those who take care of them, including parents, child care center staff and family child care providers through advocacy, research, information and training.
Program Description: CF's National Trainer's Bureau offers training to family childcare providers and center-based personnel on issues concerning the development and well being of young children. The Early Childhood Care & Education Project develops and provides training curricula for childcare workers. CF also offers a national newsletter, the CF Child Care Bulletin, providing up-to-date information on a wide range of topics of interest to early child care providers.
Fee: Yes
Discovery Creek Children's Museum of Washington
Contact: Sue Seligman
Phone: 202/337-5114 / Fax: 202/337-5344
Website: www.discoverycreek.org
Address: 4954 MacArthur Boulevard, NW Washington, DC 20007
Summary: An interactive nature and science museum for children.
Program Description: School programs at Discovery Creek's Children's Museum operate out of two sites, an historic schoolhouse on MacArthur Blvd. and a renovated stable at Glen Echo Park. The interactive outdoor environmental programs have animal, science and nature themes and include hands on activities, live animals, and outdoor exploration on nature trails. Programs for Pre-K are 60 minutes long and children must be at least 3 years old.
Fee: Yes, although scholarships are available to schools demonstrating need.
National Educational Consulting Services
Contact: Ellen Herskowitz
Phone Number: 301/564-6650
Fax/Email: 301/564-6675 / necs@erols.com
Address: P.O. Box 1572 Rockville, Maryland 20849
Summary: CDA Training Program, Professional Development, Consulting
Program Description: NECS provides educational opportunities which challenge individuals to utilize and enhance existing knowledge and incorporate new ideas into their daily interactions with children and adults.
Services Provided: CDA Training Program (Spanish/English) 90 hour, 45 hr Infant-Toddler & 45 hour School Age (Spanish/English) Policy and Curriculum Development (geared toward NAEYC Accreditation) Self Evaluation and Reflections using video tape Observing Other Centers Parent Seminars
Fee: Yes
Reading is Fundamental
Contact: Sara Horwitz Meyer
Phone Number: 202/673-1522 / Fax: 202/287-3196
website: www.rif.org
Email: contactus@rif.org
Address: 1825 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20024-2569
Summary: Develops and delivers children and family literacy programs that help prepare young children for reading and motivate school age children to read regularly.
Program description: A national nonprofit that works with groups to promote reading among young people. Its method is to motivate youngsters to read by letting them choose and keep books they like and by showing them reading is important. Run by volunteers organized by you and RIF, the children will pick out the books at book events or festive occasions when the kids are invited to choose and keep a book of their own. RIF's highest priority is on the nation's neediest children from birth to three years of age.
Program Provides: Technical support in running a RIF program such as fundraising, book ordering and volunteer recruitment. Book discounts negotiated by the national office Matching funds for programs serving economically stressed communities
Fee: The program will cost the center money whether it be for the books, distribution or book events. But child care centers may qualify for funding. Call RIF for details and application.
Selma M. Levine School of Music
Contact: Montrose Cones
Phone: 202/610-2036 / Fax: 202/610-2059
website: www.levineschool.org
email: mcones@levineschool.org
Address: (southeast campus) THEARC, 1901 Mississippi Ave, SE, Washington, DC 20020
Summary: Offering private and group music instruction, theory and musicianship classes to students of all ages, skill levels and economic background.
Program Description: Southeast branch provides music instruction and summer music and arts camp for youth in Southeast. PAL (Partners and Levine) comprises special need and proficiency based scholarships for public school students. Early childhood Music Program at Calvary Multicultural Learning Center in Columbia Heights.
Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts
Contact: Varissa McMickens
Phone Number: 703/ 255-1933
Fax/website: 703/255-1924 / www.wolftrap.org/institute
Address: 1624 Trap Road, Vienna, VA 22182
Summary: Arts and Literacy Programs and Professional Development for Teachers
Program Description: The goal of the institute is to provide professional development opportunities to early childhood professionals in the use of the performing arts to help young children learn basic academic concepts as well as life skills. The Wolf Trap Institute and its regional programs employ professional actors, dancers, storytellers and musicians to provide services to the early childhood community including teachers workshops, residencies in child care centers and public schools.
Support Provided: Teacher training in the arts, workshops and residencies for children in dance, music, African storytelling, etc.
Fee: Yes
Wolf Trap - Theater in the Woods
Contact: Rodririgo Pinchera
Phone Number: 703/255-1920
Fax: 703/255-1905
Address: 1624 Trap Road, Vienna, VA 22182
Summary: Series of children's performances at their Theater in the Woods, nestled in the forest near The Filene Center. This woodland setting is the backdrop for lively adventures in music, dance, mime, storytelling, puppetry and clowning.
Fee: Yes