Your students need more than a lesson.
They need an experience.
Actor's Training Academy brings theater-rooted programs directly to your school, library, or organization, facilitated by Altesa Baker, MFA, with nearly 20 years of experience turning classrooms into rooms where learning actually happens.
Every program is facilitator-led and delivered by Altesa. You get a live, experienced educator in the room. Browse the menu and reach out when something fits.
LITERACY AND LIFE SKILLS
Handwriting is a life skill, and for many students, it's an unaddressed gap. This hands-on workshop builds legibility, motor confidence, and focus through structured practice and creative prompts. Bring it to your campus as a monthly club or a focused 6-week intensive.
Paper Planes Handwriting Club
MONTHLY OR 6 WEEK
AGES 8-13
WORKBOOK SUPPORTED
Students read a canonical text, beginning with A Raisin in the Sun, and use it as a lens to examine real-life documents: 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.
Real Document Book Study
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