Boise School District

Welcome to the Theater Curriculum for Secondary Teachers!

This site is for Boise School District Secondary Theater teachers.  Here you will find performance tasks, unit overviews, learning intentions, success criteria, recommended scope and sequence, and other resources to guide student learning. 

Please click on the tabs to the right to access grade-level curriculum and other resources.  If you need any additional assistance, please reach out to Fine and Performing Arts Supervisor Benjamin Simmonds – benjamin.simmonds@boiseschools.org or 208-854-4100

A key tenet of our district's teaching philosophy is to build a comfortable environment where students can enjoy themselves while learning. Part of the goal of music instruction should be to learn how to learn. Through creative games in music theory and instrumental training, entertaining repertoire, and collaboration with teachers and peers, students capture a sense of enrichment and place more value on music study.

"If you take a child to the theater, not only will they practice empathy, they might also laugh uproariously, or come home singing about science, or want to know more about history, or tell you what happened at school today, or spend all dinner discussing music, or learn how to handle conflict, or start becoming future patrons of the arts." - Lauren Gunderson