Evanston School District 65 Drama Program Collection

The Evanston School District 65 Drama Program Collection, 1959-1990, includes: notebooks, proposals, grant applications and proposals, reminiscences, materials lists and index cards, memoranda, objectives and goals statements, papers, handwritten notes, biographies, newsletters, bibliographies, correspondence, resumes, newspaper and periodical articles, lesson plans, job descriptions, schedules, meeting agendas and minutes, evaluation forms, studies, visual aids, syllabi, class handouts, transcripts, books, pamphlets, reports, transparencies, audio cassette tapes, reel-to-reel video and audio tapes, and VHS video cassettes. The collection documents the administrative, personnel and curricula activities and objectives of this drama program for the community consolidated schools of Evanston, Illinois. It has bulk dates of 1964 through 1988 and is divided into the following six series: Program Administration (Box 1), Personnel (Box 1), Curriculum Guides (Box 2), Lesson Plans (Box 2), Audiovisual Materials (Box 3-4) and Resource Materials (Box 5).

Series I: Program Administration: This series, 1959-1990, contains substitute instructors notebooks, grant applications and proposals, former drama teacher reminiscences, materials used by middle schools, lists and index cards, staff memoranda, objectives and goals statements, staff presentation papers, handwritten notes, staff biographies, newsletters, drama department bibliographies and lists of recordings, poetry, stories, plays and costumes. This series documents the operations of the Drama Department Program with emphasis on materials used to teach creative dramatics, staffing, program objectives and grant applications for support of gifted and special needs children's programming. There is no arrangement beyond the original order.

Series II: Personnel: This series, 1961-1980, includes correspondence, resumes, newspaper articles, presentation papers, lesson plans, handwritten notes, memoranda, job descriptions, shared teaching materials, schedules, meeting agendas and minutes, and evaluations. This series provides information on the drama programs teachers and supervisors: Ann Flagg, Anne Thurman, Barbara Reynolds and Lew Musil. Of note is a folder containing Ann Flagg's biographical materials. There is no arrangement beyond the original order.

Series III: Curriculum Guides: This series, 1968-1988, contains curricula guide drafts, objectives statements, visual aids, teacher competency articles, assessment forms, journal articles, evaluative criteria articles and papers, handwritten notes, presentation papers, and a creative dramatics pupil ability assessments project study. This series contains materials used in compiling district curriculum guides. There is no arrangement beyond the original order.

Series IV: Lesson Plans: This series, 1966-1990, contains syllabi, class handouts, transcripts of audio interviews, subject index cards, position papers, periodical articles, correspondence, overhead projector transparencies, and a creative dramatics guide for classroom teachers on audio cassette tapes. This series provides information on creative drama and gifted child teaching class preparation and has implementation tools used by the Drama Department. There is no arrangement beyond the original order.

Series V: Audiovisual Materials: This series contains: nine VHS video cassette tapes of the July 21, 1990 Nancy Ball's and Laurel Serleth's (both District 65 drama specialists) creative drama workshop at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with an introduction by Joan Lazarus; a reel to-reel video tape of a June 11, 1993 movement demonstration by Shirley Mordine; a reel-to-reel audio tape of a February 19, 1970 lecture by Dr. John P. Hills titled A Behaviorist Looks at Creative Dramatics; and five reel-to-reel audio tapes of 1965-1970 movement, oral communications and articulation teaching in the middle schools.

Series VI: Resource Materials: This series contains books, pamphlets, reports, studies, journal and periodical articles, presentation papers and newsletters. These materials document teaching practices and research on creative drama, children's theatre, arts education, religious drama, drama therapy and aesthetic education. These resource materials were used when creating lesson plans, curricula guides and operations policies for the drama program. There is no arrangement to this series.