A place where your child gets to show up and do something real.
Open enrollment programs for students ages 8–17. Purposeful, experience-first learning rooted in theater, writing, and life skills. Register your child and show up.
Every program below is open to families directly. Some are free or low-cost. Some run seasonally. All of them are worth your child's time.
ONGOING · MOSTLY YEAR-ROUND
Once a month, 90 minutes, and your child leaves with better handwriting and something they actually made. Paper Planes builds legibility, motor confidence, and focus through structured practice and creative prompts — with a signature closing ritual that kids look forward to every session. Runs in cycles. Register for yours.
Paper Planes Handwriting Club
ONCE A MONTH
AGES 8-13
WORKBOOK SUPPORTED
For students who need to find their voice — on paper and in the room. This small group tutoring program meets Tuesdays with a maximum of four students. Your child gets real attention, real feedback, and real practice. Not a class. Not a lecture. A working session.: leases, contracts, civic language, legal letters. Discussion is live, purposeful, and loud in the best way. This is civic literacy that fits naturally into ELA, Social Studies, or advisory.
Writing & Public Speaking
SEL ALIGNED
8-10 WEEKS- ONCE PER WEEK
GRADES 9-12
ELA & CIVIC LITERACY
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING
Nine modules that build the social-emotional foundation students need; conflict resolution, empathy, active listening, and communication skills, all taught through theater-based activities that keep students present and engaged from start to finish. Scheduling is flexible to fit your campus calendar.
Creative Classroom Experience
GRADES 4-12
9 MODULES
THEATER & HISTORY
Students don't just study the Harlem Renaissance, they inhabit it. Through improvisation, scene work, and storytelling rooted in the era, this program brings history off the page and into the body. A powerful fit for Black History Month, humanities integration, or any school that wants this period to land differently.
Acting Through History: The Harlem Renaissance
GRADES 5-12
SMALL GROUP LEARNING
FLEXIBLE RESIDENCY, 55-90 MINUTE SESSIONS
ARTS INTEGRATION
Curriculum also available for purchase if your team wants to facilitate independently.
COMMUNITY & CREATIVE WRITING
Write Now is a creative writing workshop experience open to everyone in the room- students, teachers, staff, volunteers. administrators. Now experience required. Sessions are designed to inspire imagination, unlock creativity and get people writing who never thought they would.
Write Now Workshops
AGES 7+, ADULTS
FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE
COMMUNITY BUILDING EXPERIENCE
About Altesa Baker & Actor's Training Academy
Altesa Baker holds an MFA in Acting and brings nearly 20 years of experience as a theater artist, educator, and coach. Actor's Training Academy is her company, built on one conviction: experience is better than exposition.
When Altesa comes to your school or organization, she brings a fully designed, facilitator-led program — not a worksheet, not a substitute activity. Students speak, move, read aloud, perform, and practice. The theater is the method. The outcomes show up everywhere else.
Browse something that works for your school or organization and reach out. Every program can be shaped to your schedule, your students, and your goals.
Let’s Find The Right Fit