CATCO will be providing substantive learning for hundreds of students around the city including Highland, Oakmont and West Broad Elementary Schools and Mifflin Middle School. CATCO 
will be brining the lens of theatre to help students better understand academic subjects as science and history. This integration of theatre into academic subject into classroom that the Ohio Department of Education finds has students most at risk for failing. ACT ONE: Use teamwork. ACT TWO: Use your imagination. ACT THREE: Students will find the courage to participate and speak up loudly in class. ACT FOUR. They will become thinkers in order to solve problems by using prior knowledge and new skills. This is being called deep learning” and it will be done by the students, given a subject/theme by their teachers that may be:
Who am I?
What is my responsibility as a citizen of the world?
In order to answer these questions they will create, write, edit and produce plays and then perform them. All of this will help these students develop skills, including not being afraid to take positive risks and to respect others. For 20 weeks during the school year,
CATCO staff work in urban schools using theatre to teach academic (such as math and science) in
preparation for the state achievement tests. Students write, edit, rehearse, and produce a play covering a major
test topic. Both pre and post tests are given and, in past years, 70% of the student’s had improved their grade by at least 15 Points after these 20-week sessions.
