BAM Education is dedicated to providing inspiration and curriculum enrichment through the arts, presenting an exceptional and innovative series of performances, films, and workshops to students every year. For every performance or film each class attends, BAM provides an in-school, preshow preparation workshop and a teacher’s study guide.

Live Performances and Films
Through its presentations of live performances and films, BAM Education offers students and teachers the opportunity to connect with the world at large and to explore the issues that impact their lives through the arts.

Residencies and Professional Development
BAM Education offers opportunities for extended engagement in the arts through several in-school artist-in-residency programs—AfricanDanceBeat, AfricanMusicBeat, and Shakespeare Teaches Students. As we continue to support the integration of the arts into the school curriculum, we also offer a wide range of professional development workshops for teachers and administrators including the series Shakespeare Teaches Teachers. These programs directly address the New York State Learning Standards, especially for the Arts, English Language Arts, and Social Studies, the New York City English Language Arts Performance Standards, and the New York City Blueprints for Teaching and Learning in the Arts.

After-School Programs
Free after-school programs—Young Critics, Young Film Critics, Dancing Into the Future and Arts & Justice—offer opportunities for extended engagement in the arts. All programs are tailored to meet city and state learning standards as part of BAM Education's continuing mission to support the integration of the arts into the school curriculum.

Pre-Show Preparation Workshops and Teacher's Study Guides
The following support services and materials provide connections to the curriculum, the Learning Standards, the Blueprints for Teaching and Learning in the Arts, and students’ personal experiences.

Pre-Show Preparation Workshops
Every class attending a performance or film receives an in-school, pre-show preparation workshop. In these interactive workshops, BAM Education's extraordinary teaching artists provide essential context and behind-the-scenes information to enhance students' appreciation of what they will experience at BAM.

Teacher's Study Guides
Teachers receive a study guide for each performance or film. These materials are tailored to each program and relate to the Learning Standards and the Blueprints for Teaching and Learning in the Arts. Study guides typically include:

• Background information about the company, artists, or film
• Historical and cultural context
• Curriculum connections
• Writing assignments
• Classroom activities
• Tools to foster analytical thinking